The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director you're shopping - you're picking this actor you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination and that's all you have.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning rolling over in a tractor and old age.

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50 feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s 60s and 70s with health being a major factor.

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor but for an actor of a young age it's going to be even tougher.

One of the tough things about being an actor probably the hardest thing is getting your foot in the door and my father handled that for me at a very early age.