Part of an actor’s job is to draw up a back story.
My goal has always been to be a working actor.
I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don’t know, I don’t hold back on suggesting things, but I don’t have any connection to what actually happens, so I’ll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go.
Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.
I intend to do more directing TV.
I look like everyone.
Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident in those areas, you would hope to have the opportunity to do them, whether it’s drama, comedy, musical, or whatever your interests are.
I’ve done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. ‘Airwolf.’ ‘Murder, She Wrote.’ ‘Amazon Women on the Moon.’ But you learn from all these bad shows. What you don’t want to do and what you don’t want to be involved with.
If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
There’s this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.
Actors, writers, directors – that triumvirate of creativity – we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.
Something’s happened in our society which I don’t think is beneficial, and that’s that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station – I’ve been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.
I’m not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.
Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you’re not healthy. You can’t appreciate it.
What’s great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That’s basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.
Actors are inherently self-centered.
The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.
I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can’t. It’s against the law of nature.