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I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.' ”
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high. ”
We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal. ”
I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. ”
The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time. ”
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ”
I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really. ”
I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible. ”
Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day. ”
There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story. ”