And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.Collection: Amazing
New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there's something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to go to L.A. for work, when I'd come back and get off the plane and be driving towards the landscape of the city, I'd be beside myself with joy. It doesn't matter how many times!
I think therapy can be very revealing and useful for actors. You start to dig deep and understand certain mechanisms that you hadn't been aware of before and, you know, meanings behind things.
The thing about the four-camera shows is that it's kind of a great combo of theater and film. You have an audience, but you have a camera to capture things, so that's a great thing, too.
You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.
I didn't know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about seven. I saw a play, like most kids do, at a children's theater in Cleveland, and I just saw them up there, and I thought, 'that's where I want to be.'
You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.
I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first, and then I moved into film, also very young, and when I did 'Taxi,' for instance, it was live in front of an audience but also filmed; that was a fun combination.
I was taught by a lot of great comedy writers to go for the reality in a role, and the comedy will come through.
I think most actors are very impressionable, and that's part of what we do is soak up other's behavior.
Buses and subways are this remarkable social club. You talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to.
I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.
'Hester Street' was my most complete character study, but 'Annie Hall' and 'The Last Detail' were also great.
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
There is no restaurant anywhere in the world where I have been that I haven't been able to find something to eat.
It's totally mystifying to me how anyone could have canceled 'Taxi.' I don't understand it because that stuff is rare.
I don't like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I'm afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.
This is a grueling profession. Either you can't get work, or you can't get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it's not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.
There are directors who don't cast you for the way you act but for the way you are, the way you behave around the dinner table.