Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I’m proud of that.
We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you’re 60 and you don’t really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.
I’m not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I’ve slowly been drawn into the sea.
There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
There’s something about a catharsis that is very important.
It’s not good to be in a situation where people don’t want to direct you or don’t want to question something.
People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it – its hard to get into your head that it’s actually finite.
It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.
I’m an actor, that’s my contribution.
I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
I don’t have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I’ve never been offered those. The challenge is that a lot of people see you only as your last character, so you’re constantly competing with whatever your last movie was.
Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who sees live theater should come out a little rearranged.
I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It’s molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater and when I first went into movies I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.
I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.
What’s so fascinating about people is what they don’t show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.
I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.
As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That’s the bottom line.