Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
I miss live audiences, because it's like no other form of entertainment, where the audience is a major part of the production every night.
I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.
The first time I went to the Oscars was surreal. It wasn't really me walking the red carpet. It was like watching a movie of a Hollywood premiere. You have to have an intellectual distance from it, because it's so atypical from your everyday life.
With voice acting, it liberates you to play characters you'd never do in a million years because you're physically not right. You can show up looking like hell, you don't have to memorize your lines because you can read them right off the page, and you get to play the most fun parts. You come in and you kick everyone's ass and you get your own ass kicked, and then you go home.
Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.
There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.
When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.