At School I Was Always Trying To

I Get Very, Very, Very Irritable With People Who Complain About Getting Old, Because I Know A Lot Of People Who Would Gladly Trade Places With Us. I'm Not Saying It's Easy, I'm Not Saying It Doesn't Hurt Your Feelings, I'm Not Saying It's Not Painful - And Physically As Well As Mentally And Spiritually - And It's Frightening At Times. However, People Have Really Lost Perspective, And It's A Really Bizarre Topic Of Conversation That It's Become A Cultural Peg In Our World That Aging Is A Bad Thing. It's Not Logical To Me.

I Grew Up In Manhattan On The Upper East Side.

I Don't Want To Spend My Life In My 40s Feeling Bad About Being In My 40s, And Then All Of A Sudden I'm 50, And I Will Have Missed A Whole Decade!

Most Scripts Are Written To Be Green Lit. They're Not Written To Be Acted. And A Lot Of Writers With The Greatest Intention In The World Don't Write For Actors. They Don't Understand The Architecture Of What An Actor Needs To Get From Point A To Point B.

I Know That Actors And Actresses Have A Great Reputation For Being Very, Very Selfish, And In Some Cases, That's Very True. But In The Theater I Find It Doesn't Help You To Be Selfish. You Sort Of Have To Be Selfless In The Theater, And The More Selfless You Are - That Doesn't Mean Don't Take Care Of Yourself - But The More You Sort Of Surrender To The Work, I Find, The Better The Work Is. That's Just My Experience.