Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.