I Like When People Know Exactly, Have

If You're Really Being Honest With Yourself When You're Acting, Part Of It Is Touching The Real You. You Can Only Separate Yourself So Much From The Character. Those Vulnerable Moments Do Touch Me.

I Grew Up Listening To A Lot Of Player-piano Music In My House And A Lot Of Old Tin Pan Alley Songs And American Standards. My Dad Listened To A Lot Of Traditional Irish Music And I Grew Up Doing Musical Theater. So Most Of The Music I Was Exposed To As A Kid Was Pre-rock N' Roll.

I Do A Lot Of Improvising On Movies, Actually.

Here's The Thing, With Comedy - And I Learned This From Will Ferrell - You Can't Be Ashamed. If You're Doing Comedy, You Have To Fully Commit To The Joke. Shame Is Not Part Of It. If You Act Shy Or Uncomfortable About Your Body, That Makes The Audience Shy And Uncomfortable. And In A Comedy You Just Want Them To Loosen Up And Laugh.

Once You Become Tagged As Anything, It Becomes Difficult To Shake It, Because The Less Imaginative People In The Business Want You To Do What Worked For The Last Guy. That's Always Been Something I've Had To Deal With.