Much of what you do as an actor - it's who's around you, what's the environment, where do you fit into this thing. That's really work that's impossible to do on your own, at least for me. I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.