I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world, is an individual accomplishment that someone is imposing upon you by listening to them read it. Because you're listening to their interpretation, and their emphasis would probably be different from the one that your brain makes while you're reading it.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.