It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I didn't sound like an actor.
From Brian Dennehy
My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.
You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'
I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
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