You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.
Cogsworth, the character I did on 'Beauty and the Beast,' could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn't want Cogsworth to become Disney's gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.
I wish to spend my life's twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone, and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion with me.
I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.
People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.
