I Don't Do A Huge Amount Of

My Goal Was Just To Work Regularly. I Didn't Ever Expect To Be Rich Or Famous. I Wanted To Be A Working Character Actor.

There Comes A Point When You've Exhausted Your Opportunities Playing Good Guys. I've Been Around Long Enough, I Think I'm Entitled To Explore A Bit. But What I Saw There Was An Opportunity To Play A Character Different From What The Audience's Expectation Was. A Chance To Take Their Crude Experience Of Me - Of My Iconography, If You Will - And Turn It On Its Ear At An Appropriate Juncture In The Film To Be Useful To The Process Of Telling The Story.

The Only Ambition I Ever Had Going Into And Committing To Wanting To Be An Actor Was To Live My Life.

What I Found Was An Emotional Consistency With Him. The Words, The Scenes, The Situations - I Wasn't Mimicking What I Thought Branch Rickey's Emotional Reality Would Have Been.

The Basic Skill Of An Actor Is, In Fact, Empathy, And That's Maybe Not A Skill, It's A Disposition. I Am An Assistant Storyteller. I Enjoy Feeling Useful To A Team Effort. It's My Way Of Finding A Use For Myself, A Utility In This World.