In A Good Script, It's

My Closest Friend Is Canine. I Have Precious Few Close Friends, And Most Of Them Are Not Actors

You Just Have To Learn Certain Technical Things, Like Where The Camera Is, Not To Block People's Light In Your Own, To Hit Your Marks, And That You Do It Kind Of Piecemeal.

I Did A Moonlighting Episode Because I Was Friends With Whoopi [goldberg, Who Guest-starred In The Same Episode], And She Asked Me To Do It And I Did It. But Yeah, That Was My First Regular On A Series, And It's Because I'd Met Brooke Shields A Number Of Years Earlier At A Charity Event.

In A Good Script, It's Really Like A Treasure Map. You Just Focus On That, All The Answers Are Pretty Much In It.

It's Like They Talk About How American Actors Have The Method And English Actors Just Kind Of Switch Views Faster. And John [hurt] Is Telling Me The Story As He's Sitting In That Witness Chair, And They're Putting The Final Touches Of Makeup On. And He Goes, "hold On A Second," To Stop His Story So He Can Do The Take. And He Does This Incredible Take. They Go, "cut." And Then Immediately John Goes, "anyways, So Alec, He's Playing The Chess." And I'm Just Going, "holy Crap." You Get Whiplash From Those Kinds Of Quick Turns!