Do less than you ever thought it was possible to do.

I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.

I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type.

When you're working, nobody's a star. We're all just actors trying to figure it out.

I started out old, but I have to say that I've been very lucky to work consistently since I started. I've really never been out of work.

In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.

When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying to make the scene work. They're just trying to do the best they can and figure it out.