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I Think It's Very Hard To Be Naked In A Scene And Not Be Upstaged By Your Nipples.

I Did Study Drama At Catholic U, But The Undergraduates Weren't Put In Productions, Really, Except As Extras, And It Wasn't A Hands-on Kind Of Thing At All. I Couldn't Afford To Go To Another College. And My Grandparents Lived In D.c., So I Was Able To Live With Them, And That's How I Was Able To Afford It At All.

I Don't Like To Plan. Very Often, For Me, Acting Is Like Loving; It's Using The Muscle That You Use In Loving, In That Your Heart Feels Open. Physically, You Feel Open. And So Therefore Your Job Is To Enter, Open, And Listen. And See What Happens.

9/11 Just Seemed To Come Out Of The Blue. And There Were People Asking Questions, But Then There Were No Answers. At Some Point, It Just Turned Into, "we've Got To Do What We've Got To Do." And I Think Those Are The Moments When You Grow, When You Get The Opportunity To Try To Figure Out, Exactly As You Said, What Price Are You Paying, And If It's Worth That Price.

The Directors I Consider Really Great Have The Ability To Recognize When Something's Going In An Unexpected Direction And See It As A Bonus And Be Able To Go With It, As Opposed To Locking Down What They Thought Was Going To Happen.