As Someone Who Has Been Asked To

I Feel That Movies Are Gifts That Come To You, And There Are No Accidents In What You End Up Doing.

I Had A Good Understating About Press: That It's The Actor's Responsibility To Publicize His Or Her Films, That The Press Can Be Fun, That It's Not About Hyping Yourself Into Stardom Or Trying To Sell Yourself As A Hot Ticket. I Think A Lot Of Young Actors Now Are Getting Caught Up In That.

People Are More Willing To Talk About Child Abuse. When This Whole Mcmartin Thing Went Down, I Was At A Dinner Party With About Eight People, All From Different Backgrounds And From All Over The World. And Every Single Person At That Table Had Had Some Weird Experience As A Child. I Think Everyone Has - Whether It Was With A Babysitter, Or Playing Doctor, But Usually When Some Older Person Tries To Come In Contact With You. It's Amazing How Much We Block Out.

Virginia Mayo Had Kind Of A Small Role In The Best Years Of Our Lives, But You Got The Whole Character In One Scene. Where Are Those Parts? I Was Talking To Somebody About Great Actors: Morgan Freeman's Name Came Up, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Washington. And I Realized, There're No Black Actresses. Where's There A Black Actress Who's Been Extremely Successful In The Past 10 Years?

It's A Strange World, As David Lynch Would Say