There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

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.

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.