I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.
Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.
That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.
I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.
The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.
I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.
I think where I feel the most vulnerable and anxious and sometimes insecure is when it comes to my work. It's arguably the thing that I care about the most.
I really want to do acting, and I don't want to be typecast because of my tattoos.
I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.
When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.
One of the reasons I didn't tell people I had cancer was I thought it might affect work.