I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.

There's a genetic memory that stays on your bones. What you experience when you're young, I think it stays with you.

I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.

One of the great things about the old days of television, 10 years ago, or 15 years ago, was that it was water cooler television. People would communally watch the same hour. People used to tell us all the time, we turn off the phones, we put the kids to bed and that one hour is uninterrupted. Then, the next day at the water cooler, they all talk about it.

I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.