I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

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

I hope that something can be done in our piece that reflects on the attention that needs to be paid to the most vulnerable people, like refugees in the world right now, that have to not be politicized, but saved, literally.

If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.