Were you offended when everyone referred to 'Pulp Fiction' as your comeback?

I had to do some searching for what viewpoint someone was looking at. I mean, technically, I didn't go anywhere to come back from, and you know, they were writing the same thing about Look Who's Talking. What I realized is that there's a certain group of people who, when they didn't get to see the kind of work on the kind of level that they expected, then to them, I was gone. To that group of people, even Look Who's Talking wasn't valid. Now, to me, that movie was valid because I love that movie. So I didn't agree with it, but it's a valid viewpoint from their eyes. I think from their perspective this was a comeback of an artiste. Or something. I don't know.

I've always suspected that when the public doesn't see an actor in big movies for a while, they think you're sitting alone in a dark room somewhere watching TV.

[Laughs] Well, that was another viewpoint: That I was in, like, Atlanta in some unfurnished apartment with a single light bulb hanging over my head.

What was your longest stretch without working?

Two years

If you weren't sitting in an apartment watching game shows, what were you doing?