I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.
When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do. . . you go to the internet.
My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, "sock it away," and unsuccessful actors, it's just, "Just keep at it. Don't do it unless you have to do it and if you have to do it, keep you've got to keep your instrument in shape. You just got to keep on getting better. If you're not getting better, you're standing still.
My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.
I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.
I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.
Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.
You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.
Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.