It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

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.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.