You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn’t matter whether he’s a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
The reality of our business is that for every actor who’s rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy’s who had this audition and now he’s Harrison Ford. There’s always that carrot out there in our business.
Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It’s a great stress reliever for me. It’s great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it’s things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up.
I’ve done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I’ve been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
I try to get on stage whenever I can. I’m always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I’m always looking for it.
In many respects, I think a lot of businessmen have become highly insensitive to the world, the environment, to everything around them. What are they doing with the millions and millions of dollars they’re making? Why don’t they give anything back? That, to me, is the height of insensitivity.
The great thing about show business is that there’s no mandatory retirement age.
On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.
I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.
Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.
I don’t think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity – it is not a level playing field.