Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.