Nina Quotes

"It`s very distressing doing that journey every night, and I have to do whatever I can not to get upset. It`s a very sad part." - On playing Nina in The Seagull.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

(in August 1999, when asked to what he attributes his success) Hard work. You gotta study, man. It`s like any profession. I did eight years in theater. I studied two years in school in New York with Stella Adler, the best teacher in the world. I studied under Nina Foch, I did theater, I learned my craft. You got to learn how to build a character, there`s a way to do it. Everything I ever did was different. I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you`ve never seen the same character twice. I think now, in my 50s, with (Robert Duvall), (Albert Finney) and (Gene Hackman), those guys are getting up there in their 60s, it`s my time. And I`m making sure that I push myself into their slot. So, my best work`s coming.

It`s important to understand the climate is not a light switch and La Nina will take time to change,

Damn it, Nina!