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I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship. ”
I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town. ”
I don't want to discount the nWo stuff because that was huge, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it. And I'm grateful that Eric Bischoff gave me that opportunity. And I had a ton of fun there. But it was nothing compared to the fun and creative satisfaction and just to be part of something amazing that I got from that whole DX experience. ”
Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, 'Here's what's going on. Here's the process; here are the people that are playing a role' - that's being transparent. ”
I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. ”
Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. ”
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. ”
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. ”
People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs, but the process of science. ”
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day. ”