Generally speaking, the more money that’s involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it’s not going to fail.
After many years of self-flagellation, I’ve realised that beating myself up doesn’t get me anywhere.
I don’t need to worry about that, that’s always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.
As an actor it’s easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself: “Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?” Yet here I am, so I’m lucky.
I do like dating cynics – they tend to be incredibly funny.
Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.
For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you’d stay up until three in the morning. You’d hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.
Ever since I saw sexy Beast I’ve been trying to get the cockney thing down.
It opens Wednesday or Friday.
The customer is not always right.
With film, oftentimes you work in a vacuum and then you get on a high wire and then you try it and then the day’s over and that piece of film exists somewhere in a vault for 1000,000 years and that’s it.
No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.
Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.
I’m so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.
Theatre is so much fun because you do theatre and you have a month of working it out on your own, and then a month of rehearsal, so by the time you get to stage I know where I’m failing and I know where I’m succeeding and your boundaries are pretty concrete.
My fans have designated themselves the, uh, ‘Pine Nuts.’ They’re a nutty bunch.
My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.
The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions.
Whether you’re scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation – you have to size fear up.