Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

I don't have anything against audiobooks. I actually did a couple of them - but not many. I just never got into it, timing-wise. I don't listen to them, if that's any indication of my feelings about them. I'd rather read.

I certainly don't take life lightly. To respect the product that you're using, I think, is very important. I think it does connect you a little bit more.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years - particularly Samuel Beckett and Henry Miller, people like Charles Bukowski and John Fante and David Foster Wallace.