I've Never Cared For Guns. In Fact,

I'm An Actor, And Everything About Me - The Way I Perceive Things, The Way I Have Seen The World - Has Been In Relation To Characters And How I Would Want To Play Something Or Not Play It.

I Found That Speaking Live To People, Young People, About What I Liked And What Had Been Happening To Me Was Very Good For Me. I Was Quite Overtaken By Success And Fame. I Was One Of Those Types Who Responded To It In A Negative Way. It Was Not Easy.

What's This Thing That Gets Between Us And Shakespeare?

Many Years Ago, In The Late '70s, I Toured Colleges Along The East Coast And I Presented A Kind Of Show Where I Got A Lot Of Books And Poetry And Pieces Of [william] Shakespeare And Other Writers That I Admire, Read It To The Class And Then Afterward We Would Talk And I Would Answer Questions. It Was Really A Way Of Expressing And Finding Out About Where I Was At That Particular Time, So It Was Very Therapeutic For Me.

Actors Are Always Outsiders. It's Necessary To Be Able To Interpret - And That Gets Distorted When You Become Famous.