I feel like I've been very lucky with the directors. The characters I've been offered, especially lately, have given me the opportunity to play all o….
My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories ….
What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as we sit in ….
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists. What I ….
The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his b….
Dawn Steel was the person who told me I could never wear shoes like this! She and Nora Ephron told me 'you can't wear those crappy shoes, nobody woul….
What you see you become..
Do what is absolutely you and nobody else..
All I know is it’s silly to chase fun when all you need is the ground underneath you to be solid. And I don’t expect to be one of those people that d….
The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters..
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not written..
The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time ….
There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and ….
By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met..
I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I had Dylan in my tub, and he came….
It's a constant learning process - not just what you need to learn for the character or as far as good actors - but as an actor, there's no limit. Ev….
On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, ….
Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting that character/community is formed, ….
Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing,….
Ralph Angel, for me, was about getting in touch with the similarities between the characters. I felt like he was a human being that I knew and [someb….
That, which others compress - will widen up and open. That, which others weaken - will strengthen. That, which others destroy - will blossom. Whoever….