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

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.

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.