We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn't matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released - well, that's what theater can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens.

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think

What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.

I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could - only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.