We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

I have been vain since birth.

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.