As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.
I don’t think you’re going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.
If you’re playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks – in your own mind.
Acting means living, it’s all I do...
People don’t want to hang around someone that you don’t know how they’re going to react to anything you do or say.
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty.
Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.
Don’t be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.
I feel fine, I don’t care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing – all of us – everybody in the business – that’s all you ask anyone – you know your job, I know mine, let’s go do it.
Is listening important? I can’t think of a single walk of life where it wouldn’t be.
Insanity is coasting through life...
I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.
They’re talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they’ve discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, ‘Legalize it across the board!’
I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you’re surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!
I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn’t something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.
The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.
Your best posture is your next posture.
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we’ll do it for nothing. That’s a basic fact – you gotta do it.
Acting means living, it’s all I do and all I’m good at. If I weren’t getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
Give me something interesting to play and I’m happy.