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 wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."

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.

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

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.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

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