When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.