I Had [at School] My Own Little

Once You Become Tagged As Anything, It Becomes Difficult To Shake It, Because The Less Imaginative People In The Business Want You To Do What Worked For The Last Guy. That's Always Been Something I've Had To Deal With.

I Know I'm Not Some Matinee Idol, But I Think We're Sold This Bill Of Goods By The Media, Which Says That Only The Most Beautiful And Dashing People Can Become Movie Stars. So When Someone Like Me Sneaks In, They Have To Redo The Calculations.

I Grew Up Listening To A Lot Of Player-piano Music In My House And A Lot Of Old Tin Pan Alley Songs And American Standards. My Dad Listened To A Lot Of Traditional Irish Music And I Grew Up Doing Musical Theater. So Most Of The Music I Was Exposed To As A Kid Was Pre-rock N' Roll.

A Lot Of People That Make Films Say, 'we Need This Kind Of Character. Who's Done It Before? Get Them To Do It Again.' That Is Exactly What Actors Are Pushing Against. It's Kind Of A Cliche To Talk About Being Stereotyped In That Way, But It Happens.

Somehow That Doesn't Feel Like A Natural Human Thing To Do, To Go To Those Dark Places, You Have To Kind Of Force Yourself To Do That. And Comedy, It's Like You're Excited To Get There In The Morning Every Day.