I Believe In Using Words, Not Fists.

In The Theater, You're So Much More In Charge As An Actor. For Better Or For Worse, You Know What The Audience Is Seeing. But You Can Be Acting Your Socks Off On Film, And Then You See The Movie, And The Camera Is On The Other Actor, Or They've Cut Out The Lines You Thought Were Significant, Or They've Adjusted The Plot. So Much Of It Is Out Of Your Control.

I Remember Anthony Perkins Saying, "real Is Not Necessarily Interesting." So Real Is Not Enough. But What Happens As An Actor Is That You're Really Trained To Listen And To Be Open And Have Empathy. It's Such A Natural Consequence That You End Up Being More Political. You Can Empathize With The Mother Whose Kids Are Going To Be Sent To Iraq, Or You Can Emphasize With The Mother Who Is Losing Their Child To A Disease. How Could You Not Then Be Active? So You're Automatically Drawn To That Aspect In The Rest Of Your Life.

Everything's Serendipitous And There's No Way Of Knowing Who's Going To Get Sick Or Who's Going To Get Hit By A Bus Or Who's Going To Fall In Love And Who's Going To Get Pregnant. All The Things That Happen, It's Up For Grabs So It's Kind Of An Exercise In Surrender In A Way.

Every Time You Enter Into A Job It's A Whole New Universe. There's A New Language With A New Power Structure. If You Are In An All Black Cast Its A Different Dynamic, The Same With An All Male Cast Or A Crew That Is Mainly Women.

If You Can Just See All The Children Of The World As Your Own, All The Mothers Of The World As You Are, We Can Make A Huge Difference.