I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world, is an individual accomplishment that someone is imposing upon you by listening to them read it. Because you're listening to their interpretation, and their emphasis would probably be different from the one that your brain makes while you're reading it.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing.