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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.

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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.

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My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.

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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

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Education is very important to me.

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Teaching is in my blood.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 9th, 1955

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