Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.

'One Night Only,' the words I'll be hearing from my agents when I tell them I'm coming back to Broadway.

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

I've always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.

The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.