My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person that would be pretty boring.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

I don't want to be reincarnated that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.

There is a common theme though in the stories I have told which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

For my own family I would always choose the makeshift surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena Queen of the Jungle.'

I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family the character gets hung up on the door like a coat and is there to be taken on the next morning.