Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

People confuse the person and the part.

I deal in a very artistic way of what interests me and marks my passion, and I try to - whether its good or not - am in love with acting and the stage and characters and the ability to reach and to touch people, so that's where, I guess, that's where my heart will reside, by and large.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.