When I was 10 or 11, I played the Artful Dodger in a school production of `Oliver. From that point forward, I said I wanted to be an actor. Nobody in my family took it seriously, but I saw no other path. I was a cocky little kid. This one teacher said: `Y...
Theater is like exercise. I feel it`s healthy. But I don`t love it as much as movies. A bad experience in the theater can be so depressing. You`ve got to do it every night, even if the production is not working.
You go back to those films of the `40s and `50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we`ve really lost that in movies.