I wanted to meet Orson Welles. So I was like, whatever, somehow get me in on this. I'm able to get cast in it, but Orson Welles worked alone. He worked before all of us worked. He didn't want to work with anyone else.

There was no one really like John Bender at my high school.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton is in it with me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin wrote and directed it. It was made a number of years ago and very odd. Not for the squeamish.

I went and saw him [ John Hurt ] here in L.A.He did a one-man Beckett show of Krapp's Last Tape. I went back and saw him afterwards, and what an actor he is. He is so gifted.

You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.