There Was A Time In My Life

A Lot Of Actors Choose Parts By The Scripts, But I Don't Trust Reading The Scripts That Much. I Try To Get Some Friends Together And Read A Script Aloud. Sometimes I Read Scripts And Record Them And Play Them Back To See If There's A Movie. It's Very Evocative; It's Like A First Cut Because You Hear 'she Walked To The Door,' And You Visualize All These Things. 'she Opens The Door' . . . Because You Read The Stage Directions, Too.

There Are People Whose Sense Of Reality Is Very Strong, Who Have A Sense Of Honesty. Lee Strasberg Is Like That, My Grandfather Was Like That. These Are The Kinds Of Men I've Had Close Relationships With.

There Are A Couple Of Times I Would've Liked To Have Married. I Think I Made A Mistake, Especially Once.

We're Charlatans In A Way, We're Magic People. Part Of The Behind The Scenes Stuff Is To Loosen You Up, To Make You Feel That You Are Experiencing This. This Is My Style, I Did It In Looking For Richard, Too. And I Figure, If I Can Weave It Into The Actual Play And Get The Audience Interested, Like The Robes Going Up And Down, They'll Pay Attention Long Enough To Consume It.

I’ve Always Been In The Theater. I’ve Always Gone To It. That’s Been My Way To Cope. Early On In My Career, I Remember Running - Fleeing - To The Theater As A Way Of Coping With All The Meshugaas That Was Going On For Me.