Actor

Whenever I can make it work out, and schedule permitting, I like to help young filmmakers.

When you do a good theatrical production, sometimes you dream about that 8 o'clock curtain call for six months.

I wish I could do a black and white film.

I remember my first professional paycheck. I couldn't keep it as a memento because I needed the money, but I have kept some of the residuals that I get. I got one the other day that was for two cents. I might put that in a frame.

The ability to be frightening with stillness is what appeals to me.

So I grew up watching film noir, you know the classic stuff. William Holden, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, all those.

With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it up to the editing.

One of the things that motion capture and/or voice acting does is allow you to continue your career, change it, or bring a new aspect to it.

Duane Jones is a personal hero of mine.

October's a busy month for me. I usually find myself working but I also try to do one or two conventions in that period. Then whatever city I'm in, they want to drag me to their local horror theme park.

Whenever I do something, particularly if it's a cameo, I make sure that I have a backstory written out so that I can talk to the director intelligent and try to communicate a three-dimensional character.

I think people are getting more and more - unfortunately - inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

I collect Gottlieb games, and I play classic pinball.

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

I only do television if it's something really good like '24.'

I've worked with directors who have done it too much, particularly in television, you know, 'okay we got it, let's move on, next setup.' 'Well what about, we could maybe investigate?' 'Mmm... no, let's go.'

My love is the theater.

Thank God for voiceover work.

I was raised by my aunt and we bonded over the eight-o-clock movie on TV. We'd watch everything from James Cagney in 'White Heat' to Lon Chaney in 'The Wolf Man' and every Bogart movie.

But the people who give me the best reality check are my children.