Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience.

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.