Occupation: Character Actor Birth: September 16, 1953
I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and e….
I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the most beautiful girl I had ever known, and she was tak….
I understand that actors lose their looks, they change over time, but people don't lose their talent. I think that, as people get older and the peopl….
Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a 'Silence Of The Lambs' type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of rubber and foam rubber and makeup….
I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards..
There are some things you can't unsee, and there are some movies you can't get off IMDB no matter how hard you try..
I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up..
I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin..
I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career..
Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommend….
In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls..
I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, an….
You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there ….
It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything..
When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying….
To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think i….
I was selling real estate at the time, in Pacific Palisades, California, so imagine that: getting a note and a bottle of champagne from Jack Nicholso….
Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time..
I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be g….
I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius.".
I got all of my out-of-work time done in the years when I first came to L.A.!.