The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be.
I try to find something in everyone that I play - even the most heinous ones. You have to find something that is real and vulnerable about everything that you play.
If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.
When you're in morgue you're seeing life that no longer exists. It gives you an appreciation when you look someone in the eye, you shake their hand, and you hug your friends, your girlfriend, your family. It just gives you an appreciation for the life that surrounds you. At the same time you understand how fragile it is. That you don't need to be an idiot or get so angry at times.
I learned that I'm not young enough to think I know everything. Honestly. I think you hit a certain point in life where you expect that you have so much to learn, and you may think that you've arrived, but you have kind of just begun.
I think there's an initial shedding of the skin of a character when you've played them for so long, almost like a snake losing its skin. But when a job is done, I kind of walk away from it because I know that I need to prep for whatever else I'm going onto - I need to get back to being myself, which. . . Who knows exactly who that is, with all the talking voices in my head. You know, back to being a bit of a blank slate again. It becomes a necessity as an actor - at least for the way that I act.
I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.
The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.
The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
In America, we have lost millions of decent-paying jobs. That has got to end.