Fascinates Quotes

A friend of mine says, "Art`s like a shark. You`ve got to keep swimming, or else you drown." Keep bouncing around. People always ask me, "What`s the plan?" There is no plan. I go to what fascinates me next.

It`s a very instinctual relationship, a reaction to something in the script. I read a script and ask myself, "Is this a story I want to tell?" An actor is really a storyteller and sometimes the story being told is as important as the character in the story. Sometimes, I look at a character and say, "I don`t know the first thing about this person, who she is and where she`s coming from." That fascinates me. I know in order to get there I have to do my work, to think through in psychological terms who this person is and examine her whole thinking process. Sometimes you recognize certain elements of yourself that you didn`t know were there. I also write biographies of my characters ever since Animal House (1978). I even do some research into the background if it`s important. I create the character`s history, who`s her family and other things. It really does help.

I`ve never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

(On Leisure Time): "Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles."

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.