I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.
I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.
What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate.
I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.
When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do... you go to the internet.
I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.
I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.
Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.
I've always been curious as to why one man jumps out of a fox-hole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest and his buddy, who sits right there next to him, sits there cowering. My feeling is that the different is tiny between the two.
There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.
The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.
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