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What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

Everybody is someone else's instrument.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.