I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something. Like, say, you're walking down a hall and you just don't have enough dialogue, and you throw in something. But you don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.