The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

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.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.