I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.
You know, I love acting.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.
If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.
If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more.
We are born knowing death.
Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.
I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.
All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.