The actor is the salesman and the product.

Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.

In fiction, you're always looking for conflict, and the salesman is seen as this rootless person ... who has the style and ability to enter any community to make the sale. But the salesman is not there to put down roots. He's there to use the community, which implies fraud and seduction.

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man,

My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man, ... Now it's a whole lot better to be the guy behind the camera. This is the area where I really do my best stuff. It doesn't matter what you look like or if your hair's right.