Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

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

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

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.