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

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

I have never played a game in my life.

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.

When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.