It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.