Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
I want every episode to feel like we still haven’t done this right yet.
I’ll be working the rest of my life because I’m a character actor and don’t have to worry about box office.
No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts – some good enough that I could see myself. But then it’s like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101.
The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can’t control it.
What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don’t deserve any recognition.
When you’re a child you’re able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you’re around. I wasn’t conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what’s real and what’s interesting.
Our show is different, because it’s not about law and order, it’s about psychology, the intent of somebody.
It’s like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They’re scared, but they’re not going to get hurt.
Acting is not a mystery. There’s nothing that I know that other actors don’t know. We all act, we’re all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
Evil changes everybody!
The Whole Wide World is the first movie I’ve ever produced.
So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
The minute you start feeling like you’ve got it down, you know what you’re doing, you’re dead in the water.
The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.