Quotes

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

[in 1983] I want to work in the movies for the next 50 years. I feel I can find my place, get the parts I like, and just keep working. It might all end tomorrow, and I try to remember that. Bt so far it's been fantastic.

[on working with Sidney Lumet on Daniel (1983)] Lumet's a genius, an absolute genius. He's so professional. He knows exactly what he wants. Everything works like clockwork and you're out of there in record time.

[in 1983] I remember after graduating high school I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival, a little part. But I remember thinking, "This would be a great way of making a living . . . to be an actor". I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it. I knew I wanted to act when I was around 14. The only other thing I can really remember wanting to do besides acting was a gas station attendant. At the time that seemed like a great job--wash the windows, pump the gas--it looks so cool coming home with black hands. There's a natural transition, from wanting to be a gas station attendant to being an actor, right?