I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.
If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.
When you have really good writing, you're compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may think it's the actors or the design or the filmmaking of it, but then you're like, 'Well, the base is a really rich story that these guys have created.'
I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.
As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.
I think it's important to say typing in the computer is like the last, last phase of my writing process. That's kind of the fun part. Well, it's all somewhat fun, I suppose. But usually what happens is I think about a movie for at least a year - maybe a couple more - and I don't put anything down.
I really like Braun Strowman. I would turn the volume down on him just a little bit. I think he is a little bit overly animated, and he doesn't have to be. He is already a larger than life character when he wakes up and has a cup of coffee.
I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!
You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.
I don't do issue writing. I do character writing.
Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.
As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.
I have always had a flair for acting; maybe that's why I enjoyed casting so much.
I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.
I love and admire Pankaj Tripathi as an actor.
I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.
I've never written a book before.
I'm hoping to reach a point when I can play all kinds of roles with equal ease.
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.
