You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, "I really hate you." And they say it in the nicest possible way and I accept it. It's the people who come up to you and say, "I really liked your character. Man, he was right!" Those are the ones you worry about.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.