Do you have any interest in cryptozoology, which is the study of hidden animals?
Jeff Goldblum: Stanislavsky said, “Love the art in yourself; not yourself in art.” An actor wants to get up every day and they can’t think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it’s real. And having people watch it perhaps and thereby telling those people a story, by acting out these characters in a story. That’s what actors want to do; they don’t necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It’s a very bad gamble if that’s what you’re after. But if your heart is wildly in it so that you can’t think of anything else that could possibly make you happy or happier than getting up every day and acting, playing this crazy game that you make something up and playing pretending as if that’s true; if that’s for you [then] you should start to do it. And it’s not rocket science. There are a lot of books about it. I had a great teach, Sandy Meisner, and there’s a book that he wrote kind of chronicling a class that he, his
