I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because you're finished with a lot of people's favorite part of the process, which is finding the character and discovering it, and then you get to live it.

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

I think that we definitely deal with that issue and don't ignore it, the issue of drink, but that's not where it ends. I just think that what the fear is that you think alcoholic writer or whatever and you forget the intelligence that can be present. I mean so many people just write off someone who drinks as one thing.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.