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I lived in Texas for 10 years.
It's hard to get concert tickets.
I don't have actor training myself.
I don't have actor training, myself.
There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!
I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.
Part of the way that I work is to observe.
I generally play strong people and scary people.
I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.
A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.
I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'
If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.
I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.
It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.
You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help
You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.
Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.
I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.
It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.
It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.
I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do
I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.
I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.
Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.
I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.
When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.
I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.