You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'
This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.
An experience like 'The West Wing' is what I would imagine - even though I've never done it - that surfing feels like. It's, like, 'Whoa! I can just stand up here and ride this without all the anxiety!'
Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of a lot of right-wing politics.
Juilliard was four years, and I called it 'med school with guaranteed unemployment at the end.' And it ends: you're getting ready to go out and be an actor, and... nothing.
