JFK is a role I've always dreamt of playing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.
To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.
I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
Every role I do is a dream role for me because I can't imagine I'm doing it.
I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy.
Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.
I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.