I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.
My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
It's always refreshing to step into another time.
I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.
As an actor, you hope to obtain this mind meld and sometimes I feel like I'm chasing a horse holding on to its tail and getting dragged, and other times I feel much more velcroed into the saddle. And I'm not the knower of which is better or best as a process, it's just as random as the weather in terms of what my subjective experience is.
For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life. . . I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
Business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.
I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. Thats what I try to do.