The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.