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Hollywood any way as an actor,

but it--I think you're very

lucky if you get a chance to

make a living doing different

characters every time.

If you look at the range of

roles I've played from,

"Elvira:
Mistress of the dark,"

you know, to "Babylon 5.

That's where we're luckier than

the stars.

I've gone from weirdo,

freako psychotics to sensitive

dads.

After "longtime companion," I

had sensitive parts with dying

everybody for a while.

Now, it's evil wasps.

I'm constantly being cast as

very confident, you know,

businessman types.

I do get a little tired of it.

I'm excited to play somebody

like--well, more like me.

You know, jeans and, you know,

a porkpie hat, maybe an

attitude, earrings all three of

the holes.

I've lost work because of this.

"We need the attorney

who's gonna lose the case."

"Yeah, well, Bob joy,

he'll be a good choice."

Or "we need the axe murderer

who's gonna, you know--you know,

kill the little girl."

"Oh, that would be Bob joy,

right?"

You get typecast from the

next five years, which is great.

You know, it's nice to have an

identity as long as you can

keep changing it.

I had to quit playing bad

guys for a while because I had

a casting director say to me

once, "well, let's face it.

You'll never play the nice guy

next door."

And I go, "what do you mean?

I am the nice guy next door.

Go talk to all the old ladies

down the block and ask them who

the nice guy next door is, and

I guarantee they'll all say

it's me."

I was afraid to come to

Hollywood initially because

I said, "well, I'm going to get

typecast.

I'm gonna be, you know,

the bad guy or--"

[laughs]

"You know, the--the athlete."

I'm happy to say that I haven't

been typecast.

There's one thing worse than

being typecast, and that's not

cast.

I've lived my life for that,

I can't wait to be a type,

where people pick the phone up

and go, "that's who I want.

That's the guy we want."

I don't quite understand

people who want to play nice

guys all the time.

I think, "isn't that just

skating on the surface?"

That's so cliche.

Yeah, I play a lot of nasty

characters.

It's what I get cast to do.

I kind--I kind of look like

an a**hole, so I get cast

as a**hole characters.

But sometimes I would find

myself saying stuff like

Bellick would say, having the

same kind of negative attitude,

getting pissed off at people

and stuff.

Yeah, I call it character

hangover.

I don't like having to go into

the--this horrible kind of

psyche of a guy like that.

He's a horrible person.

You know, if I got to play

one more nice guy, I'm gonna

cut my head off.

I got an inner demon, a

pathological nut inside me just

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