Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.
I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.
I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on.
I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.
I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.
The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.