Mania is a wonderful feeling.
You don't really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory. I've certainly been drunk before, and part of my job is to recall that without getting drunk.
I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
I want to have all of my faculties.
I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.