When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.

Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be." And sometimes you walk away thinking, "Wow. There are qualities in that character that I didn't realize I had." And those can be both interesting and uncomfortable.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.