Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.
I'm a workaholic, and I know it. And I don't care to deal with it.
You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when there are people starving? Of course, that's true. But just because you can't, theoretically, defend the arts, or make a sensible argument for their preservation, doesn't mean they're not important.
I'm here in Hollywood to do film and television and make enough money to get my kids through college.
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.
Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.
I didn't ever intend to or want to be an actor. I'm not one of those people of whom they say, 'If you can't live without it, that's the only reason you should be an actor.' It was kind of a sideline that became my whole life.
I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.