I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.