I Don't Mind Aging. I Mean, My

I Crave A Cone Of Silence Every Once In While.

Where I Did Feel A Difference Is Learning To Just Work In A Different Way So That Your Resources Are Not Completely Depleted So That You Don't Have Anything To Give To Your Child When You Go Home, And Fortunately I've Been Working Long Enough That I Know How To Make That Shift So That I Don't Compromise My Work Or Compromise My Relationships; Not Compromising Parenting Is Really The Biggest Difference.

I Know That Actors And Actresses Have A Great Reputation For Being Very, Very Selfish, And In Some Cases, That's Very True. But In The Theater I Find It Doesn't Help You To Be Selfish. You Sort Of Have To Be Selfless In The Theater, And The More Selfless You Are - That Doesn't Mean Don't Take Care Of Yourself - But The More You Sort Of Surrender To The Work, I Find, The Better The Work Is. That's Just My Experience.

Theater Is The Foundation Of How I Live My Life, Actually. My Father Was A Playwright, So I Was Around It All The Time And Loved To Talk Shop With Him, Just Loved It. And Basically Everything That I Hold To Be Good And True And Worthy, I Learned In The Theater. So Not Even Just About The Work, But Just About Life. Discipline, Problem Solving, Creativity, How To Get Along With People.

I Think Everyone's Journey Through This Crazy, Weird, Wild, Wonderful Area Of Work Named Acting Is Really Their Own. And If You're Going For Something That Isn't Yours, You're Wasting Time. You Could Be Focused On Your Own Work Instead Of Thinking About Somebody Else.