My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.
I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.
When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.
Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.
The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
I think part of being an actor is staying private.
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.
To act well isn't an easy thing.
