It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: Tremble.

Tom Noonan on playing the Tooth Fairy in Manhunter:

Once, [Manhunter director Michael Mann] asked me what would help me to do the part better. There’s very little I could have done either way. I do it the way I do it. But I said it’d be great if I didn’t have to hang out with any of the actors who are either trying to kill me or I’m trying to kill them, which is pretty much everybody in the film.

So Michael sent out this memorandum to everyone in the cast and crew and the staff that none of the other actors can ever meet me. There has to be complete separation between me and the other actors, so I had a PA to run around for me everywhere. One in front and one behind, so there’s no way I can run into anybody. I flew on other airlines. I stayed at other hotels. It was sort of crazy. So the crew at this point is starting to get weirded out by this person, not because of what Michael did, it was to do with me. And nobody was allowed to talk to me except for certain members of the crew. Michael likes creating drama on the set a little bit, which is effective in a lot of ways. When I did the first scene, where I had a stocking over my face, that’s the first thing we shot. I could tell the crew was scared of me. I was also huge, I’d been bodybuilding, and I’m big to begin with, and I enjoyed that whole thing.