Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred…

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

I would just look at Harrison; he would do stuff and I would not mimic it, but interpret it younger. Mimicking is a terrible mistake that many people make when…