Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

I consider it an actor going to work with other actors. It's not a competitive sport, it's not to outact anybody else, sorta thing, you can be a bad actor but you don't outact anybody, you just bring your character as best as you can.

When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.

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

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.