As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania?
When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.
I thought that the hardest part would be the external - would be the - oh, nails and the hair and the makeup and the dress and the heels and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And actually, that wasn't the hardest. That was very, very, very easy for me, and I liked it.
On the other hand, we don't come to work with all of these social goals, nor are we directly trying to change the world and all of that. Our job is that we have these human characters, and it's our responsibility to play them truthfully and as human as possible. Jill has cast this impeccably. These actors nail it, even the non-Pfeffermans. It's ridiculous.
My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!
Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably. "
Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'
Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties. . . Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn’t know how to read the signs.
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that
And. . are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and spirit? Because if you aren't, you will get caught up in gaining and losing weight for the rest of your life. But if you are willing, then the portal to what you say you want is truly on your plate.