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I Tend To Get Comfortable With The Dialogue And Find Out Who The Person Is In The Script And Try To Hit That. People Are Sort Of Independent Of Their Occupations And Their Pastimes. You Don't Play A Politician Or A Fireman Or A Cowboy - You Just Play A Person.

On Land, You Can Walk Away From People, From Unpleasant Situations. But When You're On A Ship For 14 Months With 49 Other People, If You Don't Resolve Your Issues It Literally Could Mean - And This Would Be An Extreme Circumstance - The Sinking Of The Ship. You Learn A Lot About Other People. You Learn A Lot About Yourself.

I Would Make A Horrible Politician, Because I Wouldn't Enjoy My Work.

Some Of The Best Auditions I've Ever Had Have Been When My Agent Called And Said, 'they Want You 20 Minutes Ago, In An Office In Century City, To See You For Something.' I'm Not Sitting There Thinking For A Week And A Half, Before I'm Supposed To Go In Front Of A Network President To Do Something. That Just Gives You Time To Be Nervous.

I've Done Some Things That Have Been Quite Interesting, But As Grateful As I Am For Having Been On 'dynasty,' It Was Just So Cheesy. That's Half The Reason It Was So Much Fun For People To Watch, But It's Not So Fun To Have To Say Those Lines.