To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.

Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.