It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
I've never tried to be something I'm not.
Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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