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.
There’s no experience like on-the-job training.
Godzilla’s a monster for the ’90s. He’s been working out.
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.
Politics is topical – it’s what’s happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.