If You Gave Your Best To What

What Is Ultimately Motivating The Character?

I’m So Thankful To Have Been Born In The Times That We Live In. I Felt A Responsibility To Simon [halls] And To Our Kids To Be Able To Live With Integrity And Not Have Some Strange Split Psychology Of This Is Who My Dad Is At Home, And This Is Who He Is To The Public. That Trumped Any Type Of Professional Repercussions That It Could Have Had. And – Not By My Own Volition Or Choice – I’ve Been Playing Exclusively Straight Characters For The First 10 Years Of My Career. Whatever Happens From This Point On Says A Lot More About The Business And Society Than It Does About Me.

Certainly When You're Dealing With More Deep Emotional Work And Sensory Work, For Me It Helps Me To Just Stay In It.

I Think Your Text [script] Is Everything; It's What Informs You; It's What Gives You The Given Circumstances. Then You Take That And You Add Your Own Creativity And Your Own Spin On Things And You Make It Personal. That's What Makes That Character And That Text Unique To You, When You Personalize It. I Think That's Where Your Job As An Actor Comes In.

Forget Horror Icon, Kety Bates Is An Icon. She's An Acting Icon. I Was Raised On So Many Of Her Films, Everything From Misery To Fried Green Tomatoes To Delores Claiborne, All Films That I've Watched Multiple Times And Been Inspired By.