Godzilla’s a monster for the ’90s. He’s been working out.
There’s no experience like on-the-job training.
I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.
I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it’s amazing then I’ll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.
I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.
A self-help book can’t really address a problem unless it’s individualized. It’s not going to talk about a globalized problem.
I would love to do Broadway again.
Association bring you into the larger world of other people and things. Not having that is a kind of prison, a prison of such a limited consciousness, of such a limited frame of reference and association.
I’ve always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.
Literally, I see my writing as transcription – a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.
As an actress, you’re living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I’ve always seen writing the same way. It’s like somehow I’m moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.
Once someone is in your family orbit, there’s a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It’s family.
Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who’d done time or who’d been in prison.
Politics is topical – it’s what’s happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.