When a banana gets rotten people love to tell you that you can make banana bread out of it. I have never seen anyone actually do it.
Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life
I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.
Someone else's success is not your failure.
In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of what's so fun for, I think, many people when they first start to want to be an actor, is that they realise they enjoy making up a world around them to exist in, a whole situation and a whole way of being. And even more so than theatre, animation requires that because there's just nothing to go on. It's in your head and your heart or it's not there at all.
Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.
I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.
My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.
I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode, which was massive culture shock to say the least.
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.