I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.