You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.