You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

'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?

John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.