When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.

I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.

Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.

People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together.