I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

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.

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

The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

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

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.