Exorcise Quotes

I used to be under the impression that in some kind of wanky, bullshit way, acting was like therapy: you get in and grapple with and exorcise all those demons inside of you. I don`t believe that anymore. It`s like a snow shaker. You shake the thing up, but it can`t escape the glass. It can`t get out. And it will settle until the next time you shake it up.

I`d much rather be in a comedy. In my view, comedy wins out in the long run. I`m not sure I`m a good enough actor to play real tragedy, so I bring a comic element to most things as my answer to the world`s problems. I`m not a clown, though. I love goofing around, but I don`t feel the need to act the clown in private - I do it at work, that`s where I exorcise my demons. Although I confess that I do sometimes put together outfits to annoy my wife.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.