The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

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

Im not revolted by Washington.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

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.

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.

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.