Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.