I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.Collection: Fall
I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.Collection: Blessed
As an artist, I think it's critical for keeping yourself alive that you try to get your hands into something a little bit more intensely. It's one of the reasons why I love theater because you never actually let go of it and it never feels like there's a tremendous distance between the process and the product.Collection: Letting Go
I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.Collection: Thinking
For me to get to work with a writer-director over time in developing a project - my investment feels much more profound. I know that whatever is on the other end I'm going to feel that much closer to.Collection: Profound
Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.Collection: Distance
As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?Collection: Hollywood