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When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.
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When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
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Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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I think I'm less anonymous than I was.
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I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.
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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.
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Actors are responsible to the people we play.
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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.
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The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.
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One person's religion is another person's cult.
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I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.
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In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
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There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
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When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.
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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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Actors are investigators.
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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.