Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.