Learning (shakespeare's Plays) ...in School Was A

A Lot Of Actors Choose Parts By The Scripts, But I Don't Trust Reading The Scripts That Much. I Try To Get Some Friends Together And Read A Script Aloud. Sometimes I Read Scripts And Record Them And Play Them Back To See If There's A Movie. It's Very Evocative; It's Like A First Cut Because You Hear 'she Walked To The Door,' And You Visualize All These Things. 'she Opens The Door' . . . Because You Read The Stage Directions, Too.

Francis Ford Coppola Did This Early On. You Tape A Movie, Like A Radio Show, And You Have The Narrator Read All The Stage Directions. And Then You Go Back Like A Few Days Later And Then You Listen To The Movie. And It Sort Of Plays In Your Mind Like A Film, Like A First Rough Cut Of A Movie.

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

My Early Career Was A Real Rush Of Movies And Stardom - It Was Almost Overwhelming.

Did You Know I Started Out As A Stand-up Comic? People Don't Believe Me When I Tell Them. That's How I Saw Myself, In Comedy.