I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.