This guy is in my DNA. I have cousins who are really not that different from Dwight Schrute.
Acting - Actors Quotes
I don’t like doing pictures as myself. I like to become someone else. In a picture, it’s hard to be yourself. But when you’re pretending to be someone else, it’s nice. It’s fun. It makes it interesting.
There was a period that I was very, very frustrated by being pigeonholed in this one genre, this one idea. I got “Friends” when I was 27 but I had done all this work on stage. But all that was just eradicated. As far as the public was concerned, I came out of the womb […]
I should have been in “Ghostbusters.”
Of course, any time spent with Tom Hanks is a wonderful thing. He is such a lovely person. Everybody’s game is the best when you’re around the best.
Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I’m a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult—it’s the beast that must be fed. There’s this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
It’s just never consumed me, being an actor.
Sometimes I don’t own what I’ve done. This is a big deal, to have written a book that’s a bestseller. But I’ve said before the only thing fame brings you is a platform. That’s all it brings you. And then you either give or take. And I want to give.
Because of my classical training there is a conflict at times whether I do something even slightly commercial, or popular. The attitude is that if it’s successful, there must be something wrong with it, like TV—it’s cheap. If it bombs I’ll know it’s good—really warped thinking.
Great costumes, especially in a period piece, shouldn’t take over but instead help strengthen the actors’ performances.
