Zitat des Tages von Stephen Root:
It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.
I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.
Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.
It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.
My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.
I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.
In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.
People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.
The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.
Movies are an editor's medium.
I'm lucky I get to work a lot.
I've been able to do a lot of interesting things.
Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.
It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.
I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.
I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.