It's Not Personal, It's Strictly Business

The Actor Becomes An Emotional Athlete. The Process Is Painful - My Personal Life Suffers.

I' Ve Won Awards. And They Didn't Make Me Feel Bad Winning Them. They Made Me Feel Pretty Good. But It Also Did Not Make Me Feel Bad Not Winning The Academy Award.

If You Have The Opportunity To Meet Someone As An Actor, It's Just Great Fodder For You. It's Wonderful Source Stuff That We Die For.

Failure's Relative. I've Always Felt, Even Early On, If I Lose The Freedom To Fail, Something's Not Right About That. It's How You Treat Failure, Too. There's Something To Learn From It. I've Had Movies That Have Failed Colossally, So You Kind Of Analyze Your Failures: What Kind Of Failure Was It? A Failure Because It's Misunderstood By Others? A Failure Because You Misunderstood It Yourself?

We're Charlatans In A Way, We're Magic People. Part Of The Behind The Scenes Stuff Is To Loosen You Up, To Make You Feel That You Are Experiencing This. This Is My Style, I Did It In Looking For Richard, Too. And I Figure, If I Can Weave It Into The Actual Play And Get The Audience Interested, Like The Robes Going Up And Down, They'll Pay Attention Long Enough To Consume It.