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They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky.