We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."
That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.
Theres monsters in all of us, but theres also vulnerability.
The best villains are the nicest guys in person.
You want to give the director what they want, and you don't always know exactly how it goes, so you want to try it a few different ways. You have to be flexible; you have to be in collaboration with the director; you have to be versatile. But you also want to be protective of what you really believe in and how you feel it should be portrayed.
You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
Physically, I was always moving. I was always a little jittery.
I caught the acting bug from my dad.
Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, "God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything." And then you see the close-up and it's so nuanced and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
As an actor, you look at some people and know if they're there with you or not.
You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.
I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.
Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
