I never get tired of hearing compliments.

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.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

The problem is that people are pulling farther apart, rather than make an effort to get back together. There have been remarkable moments that united this country. It makes everyone feel relieved. Then because of economic stress, political shifts, we get wrenched apart again. I think it's cyclical. I am an optimist by nature. There are moments, the period after 9/11, the way we responded. The election of Barack Obama. There are moments where the country felt good about being American. I'm waiting for that to happen again.

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

I gave up shame a long time ago.