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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting. ”
I'm 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. ”
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor. ”
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. ”
I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to. ”
The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters. ”
Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had. ”
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor. ”
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably. ”
All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage. ”