It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

I subscribe to the great George G. Scott quote, "All actors are in trouble. Directors who don't help are a pain in the ass". We all need help from directors. We are all equally insecure.

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.