I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.