Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

Oh yeah, oohing and ahhing, that's how it always starts, but later there's the running and screaming.

In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.