It Would Be Hard To Play A

It Was A Compromise. There Was A Sense That I Could Write My Own Memoirs, And Larry [grobel] Would Help Me Down The Line, Or Maybe Not, Maybe He Was Too Close To Me.

The Thing Is Doing It, That's What It's All About. Not In The Results Of It. After All What Is A Risk? It's A Risk Not To Take Risks. Otherwise, You Can Go Stale And Repeat Yourself. I Don't Feel Like A Person Who Takes Risks. Yet There's Something Within Me That Must Provoke Controversy Because I Find It Wherever I Go. Anybody Who Cares About What He Does Takes Risks.

People Are Always Asking Me To Do Shakespeare - At Home, At Colleges, On Film Locations, In Restaurants. It's Like Playing A Piece Of Music, Getting All The Notes. It's Great Therapy.

We're Charlatans In A Way, We're Magic People. Part Of The Behind The Scenes Stuff Is To Loosen You Up, To Make You Feel That You Are Experiencing This. This Is My Style, I Did It In Looking For Richard, Too. And I Figure, If I Can Weave It Into The Actual Play And Get The Audience Interested, Like The Robes Going Up And Down, They'll Pay Attention Long Enough To Consume It.

I Come From The South Bronx - A True Descendant Of The Melting Pot. I Grew Up In A Really Mixed Neighborhood; It Was A Very Integrated Life.