Anthony Michael Hall (Actor)

"Eventually I got sober. I wasn't on skid row or anything, but I was wasting my energy, so I just took myself out of the whole nightlife thing. Now I'm basically a homebody. I go home at night and prepare for the next day. I think a lot about those years with [Robert] Downey [Jr.]. We started together; it was me who introduced him to Lorne Michaels and SNL in the first place. But it's painful to tell you I wasn't there these last several years. I visited him in rehab, and I kept thinking, 'Why wasn't I there for him?' I wish I'd been able to help him fend off some of the losers who came his way. If I had to do it over again I'd have been there. Because friends matter." --Hall, quoted in DETAILS, March 1999

On his work with John Hughes: "During the time we made those films, the focus was just to enjoy ourselves. He was empowering as a writer and director because he was very much a collaborator. He empowered the actors to make choices and to take chances with him, and to come to him with suggestions, to embellish scenes. He was very inspired to that extant. It was a work in progress. It was never: 'The door is shut.'" --Anthony Michael Hall to THE BOSTON GLOBE, June 20, 1999

There is a website devoted to him at www.hallofmirrors.com