I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

A lot of acting is private time.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.