I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.
From Christopher Walken
Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.
I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.
My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.
I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering.
As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.
I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.
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