Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I was lucky enough to be a part of it at one point in its life, and it's a timely thing to deliver it again in the modern world.

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.