I'm A Big Fan Of Period Pieces,

When You Have Great Acting Partners, You Hope That Your Reaction To Them Is Propels You Deeper Into Your Own Character.

As Human Beings, When We're Young, We're Not Jaded. As We Grow Older, We Begin To Take On Ideas Of Our Parents, Family Of Origins And That Changes Us. We Become Less Fluid Sometimes. So For Me, I Look For Roles That Are Uplifting In Many Ways - No Matter What The Race Or Color Of The Role Is. I Want To Go Beyond That And Try To Share What I Think My Gift Is And That Is We All Have This Gift Of Choice. We Just Don't Sometimes Realize We Have That Choice.

To Be A Character Actor Is To Be Open, To Be A Chameleon.

I First Felt Successful When I Was 13 And In A Show Called "seesaw." I Came Offstage And Heard The Applause Of The Theater Audience And Felt A Sense Of Accomplishment. Around That Time, My Role Model For Success Was Burt Lancaster. He Was One Of The First Actors In Hollywood To Start His Own Production Company, And I Respected Him Because He Created Something He Believed In.

I Don't Think Anyone Is Black And White And I Think We Change Our Minds And Our Attitudes About Certain Things As We Grow To Our Maturity.