Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story. I don't know what the perception is. I just want to tell the story so the story as a whole works as opposed to just making sure that I work.

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really beautiful if we can keep doing that instead of just fluffing everything up and hiding again.