In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.

Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.

I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.