If you don’t have dreams, you will end up working for people who do.
Do you have children?
Which is your favorite?
I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.
Writing has never been a driving force within me.
From Beyond was a very difficult movie. I'm kind of schizo about it. It involved a lot of makeup. I counted it up once, it was 30 days in that hideous, bald-headed, dog-dick-out-of-my-forehead thing. I hated it. It was so uncomfortable. And yet on the flip side of that, it was shot out of Rome, Italy, and I got to spend a glorious eight weeks in one of the world's greatest capitals. It was good. I feel like Charles Dickens: It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times. But I also felt like the role in From Beyond was so polar-opposite to what I had done in Re-Animator, where I played a strong, driving personality that pushed the action forward. Here, I was really-for all intents and purposes-being a victim. Someone standing there going, "No!" So I felt like some of the tools in my kit were being taken away from me. That was a bit frustrating, too.
I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.
God, I had no idea what was to come. All I knew was, I was doing a play in Hollywood, and a casting director came to see it. I did not invite him. As I recall, he said, "I'm casting something you might be right for." I went in and met Stuart Gordon, did my read, got a callback where I was paired up with the great David Gale. We did a scene. I guess we both got cast. Very low budget, shot in 18 days. Who knew? I am not rich from the movie. Somebody got rich.
I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.
You get known for something, and then they pigeonhole you. They don't want to view you as being particularly versatile. They just want you to do that thing you did before. It perpetuates itself. You can certainly say no, but then you're not working. So a long time ago, I just told myself I'd just turn everything, even if it's all stuck in a particular genre, I'd try to expand people's perception of me by what I did within the framework I've got going.
It's who you know and who can help you.
Brian Yuzna, who produced Re-Animator, was directing this trilogy of horror stories, and the glue that bound them together was this interweaving story of Lovecraft coming to an exotic, mystical library. He wanted me to play Lovecraft. I kind of resisted. I said, "I don't look like Lovecraft." But John Vulich is a great special-effects makeup artist. He really got me looking like him as much as he possibly could with a chin and a nose. I always felt weird portraying Lovecraft in that movie, because Brian, for the project, really wanted Lovecraft to be an Indiana Jones character, and that's not a particularly accurate portrayal of Lovecraft, if you've read any of his biographies. You do what you can with what you've got.
I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?
Bride of Re-Animator was cobbled together. I don't really have all the details, but I think there were some issues with the script they were going to shoot. Someone claimed they had propriety over some of the ideas. So at the last minute, the script that was going to be shot was jettisoned, and the one we shot was thrown together. I feel there were some great moments in that movie. Especially, the sort of idea of building a human being out of parts: I really love that whole classic horror idea. But I think the tone got lost a little. Sometimes movies are on a track to get made and you don't have time to pull over and do a polish, because the deal is the deal and we've got a start date, and the money goes away if we don't. It suffered from all of that.
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
One of the greatest experiences of my career. Peter Jackson is a genius. He makes it look easy and effortless. A visionary. Very collaborative and sharing. No real ego. I remember my chest is a bunch of scars, and they came to me with their drawings and said, "What do you think?" Which is unheard of in film. It was one of the highlights of my life to work with him.
Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'
Labor Day. Without unions there wouldn't be weekends, an 8 hr shift, OT, vacation pay, etc. Think about that when someone bashes unions.
Why I love baseball. Poise and grace.
See you all in Lost Wages, I mean, Las Vegas (damn that auto-correct!). I'm appearing on Sunday only. Star Trek Rat Pack, baby!!
It's called acting.
Looks great! My worlds collide. Herbert & Shran. It is always surreal to see my visage inked on someone's body.
My worlds collide.
I remember it well. At first it was slated to be a Halloween release, but a summer slot opened up. Proud to be a part of this great film.
Hey @realDonaldTrump again you insult someone who disagrees w/you on their looks & IQ.... so presidential, so classy, as in 6th Grade class.
Trump just shouldn't wear pants anymore. They keep going up in flames.
At least we pronounce the t's in the middle of our words. It's "A bit of better butter." Not "A bi a be'er bu'er."
Hypocrisy writ large.
Don't forget beer. We'll be in Bavaria after all.
10 standing room tix added for tonight's NEVERMORE! A good chance some will get seats. Poe it!
An American with an ugly soul. Sadly, there's a lot of them.
Republicans are right. Their plan is so much shorter in length and cheaper! Click the link and see what I mean.
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