I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

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.

You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.