I'll Always Rather Be In A Ship

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 Feel It's Easier To Sit In The Backseat And Go, "oh, Yeah, Let's Go There." You're Not Worried About Getting To The Destination. But The Guy Or The Woman Who Has To Get You To The Destination Is Worried About A Lot Of Other Things, So My Job As An Actor Is To Try As Many Things As Possible, Be As Open As Possible, Listen, And Keep My Heart Open.

Sometimes What Happens Is That, When You Micromanage Actors And Moments, It Just Doesn't Quite Live.

I Think I'm An Actor Because I Have Very Strong Imagination And Empathy. I Never Studied Acting, But Those Two Qualities Are Exactly The Qualities That Make For An Activist.

On Parochial School I Was Told I Had An Overabundance Of Original Sin.