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There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.

One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.