I'm Very Leery Of Show Business, Having

My Adolescence Was All Tits And Champagne. I'm Downplaying The Magic Of It All.

There's Something In Human Nature, The Trying-to-get-on-with-it Quality Of People, The Struggle To Maintain Or Keep The Show Going Can Be Exhausting. It Just Seems Like That Element Of Trying To Move Forward While Things Are Breaking Down... Obviously, It's Always Been The Backdrop For A Lot Of Great Literature And Great Cinematic Characters, But Aside From That, I'm Just Drawn To It Because That Feels Honest To Me.

There's Times When I'll See A Show, Or Something Cooking On Tv, And Think, "that Can Really Be Fun When It's Working." But It's A Grind. I Did That At Nbc, It Was Five Days A Week. I Was Doing Talk Soup And Later At The Same Time. It's A Hard Job, More Difficult Than People Realize.

You Learn More About A Person From The People Around That Person Than You Do From The Person Themselves. We All Have Our Own Ideas Of Who We Are That May Or May Not Be Justified, And You Can Really Find Out A Heck Of A Lot More Accurately From The People Around An Individual.

Most Actors Are Very Deeply Passionate About Their Line Of Work. I Suppose There Are Probably People Who Sell Insurance Policies That Are Passionate About It, But I'm Thinking The Ratio Is A Little Higher For Actors. But, I May Be Wrong.