I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.