How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.