I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

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Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of...

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of...

I'm hardly a saint.

I'm hardly a saint.

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life...

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life...

There is no right in acting.

There is no right in acting.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most...

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most...

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger...

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger...

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my...

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my...

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance,...

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance,...

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go...

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go...

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will...

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will...

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a...

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a...

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.