History's A Resource.

The Thing About Death Is That It's Honest. I Go To Things That Have A Core Of Honesty About Them And There's Nothing More Honest Than Death.

I Grew Up In Manhattan On The Upper East Side.

But I've Also Spread My Net Very Wide. If There's One Thing That I've Done On Purpose It's To Take Whatever Job, So Long As It's Interesting And Challenging, Whether It's Theatre, Radio, Tv Or Film.

My Castings Sort Of Go In Phases. There'll Be Several Icy Professional Parts - A Lawyer Or A Cop. And Then There'll Be The Intelligent-but-wounded Group And Then The Period Things. It Goes In Sequence.

I Get Very, Very, Very Irritable With People Who Complain About Getting Old, Because I Know A Lot Of People Who Would Gladly Trade Places With Us. I'm Not Saying It's Easy, I'm Not Saying It Doesn't Hurt Your Feelings, I'm Not Saying It's Not Painful - And Physically As Well As Mentally And Spiritually - And It's Frightening At Times. However, People Have Really Lost Perspective, And It's A Really Bizarre Topic Of Conversation That It's Become A Cultural Peg In Our World That Aging Is A Bad Thing. It's Not Logical To Me.