Occupation: Actor Birth: June 30, 1959
My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who c….
I've never tried to be something I'm not..
When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear..
Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of….
The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101..
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt..
So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's a story ….
The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters..
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It….
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake..
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all..
Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only….
Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character..
And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these o….
The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water..
Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in..
When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious ….
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket..
They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set ….
I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art..
People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take t….