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.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

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

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

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.