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

The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

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

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.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

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.