Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.