I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.