My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.