Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. Ill never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep.

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.