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"You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time."
"I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February."
"I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway."
"I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom."
"Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are."
"I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of."
"Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long."
"I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going."
"I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though."
"Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage."
"You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders."
"Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier."
"The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more. It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be."
"What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that."
"Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors."
"A show that's been successful that been on a while, chances are it's going to stay that way. At least it's going to maintain some kind of standard. But when a show begins, there's no telling. Even after 13 shows or a whole year, you don't know what will become of it."
"The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more."
"I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true."
"There is many different paths of a career. I bounce around and do a lot of different things. It suited me that hopefully I am prepared to do different kinds of styles, genres, or whatever you want to call it."
"Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something. Like, say, you're walking down a hall and you just don't have enough dialogue, and you throw in something. But you don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed."