Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

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.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.