Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

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

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

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

People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.