Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.