Playing A Character Is An Illusion, And

The Actor Becomes An Emotional Athlete.

I Was Playing A Part Of Someone Dealing Dope On A Street Corner - And There Was A Guy Actually Dealing Heroin Right There. I Looked At Him, He Looked At Me, And I Got Real Confused.

The Interesting Thing About This Is I Don't Know What My Vision [ In Salome The Play And Salomaybe] Is Yet About. I'm Sensing Something And I'm Going Along With It. It Reminds Me Of A Painting, The Way Jackson Pollack Painted - Jackson Pollack, The Great, Great Artist.

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.

I Don’t Understand The Hatred And Fear Of Gays And Bisexuals And Lesbians… It’s A Concept I Honestly Cannot Grasp. To Me, It’s Not Who You Love… A Man, A Woman, What Have You… It’s The Fact That You Love. That Is All That Truly Matters.