What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
I was 13, and George C. Scott snuck up on me after a performance on Broadway. I was doing Seesaw. He was doing Uncle Vanya. I was in the middle of an interview afterwards in the theatre restaurant, and he came up behind me —this big man with all this weight on my back, whispering in my ear. He was kind of toasted. And he said, [puts on a gruff George C. Scott voice], “Don’t do it. Don’t do it!” I go, “Who is this guy behind me?” The interviewer, her mouth had dropped open, she was staring. I went, “Wait a minute, I know that voice.” And he turns his face into mine, looks me right in the eye, and says, “Don’t do it unless you really have to. Be true to yourself.” And then he walked away.