Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!

The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible. It's not necessarily because of the work itself. I just feel the need for a period of regeneration afterwards. Like leaving a field fallow when you've grazed too much on it. I feel depleted.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.