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

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park,' or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'

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.

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

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

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.