It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

Petruchio is a very clever guy and clearly has a lot of bravado and confidence. My feeling is that he's broke at the beginning of the play and needs a dowry to save face back home.

I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment.

I just spent three years on 'The Office.' I made enough money that I can take five weeks out and do a play.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Travelling by myself is always more of an adventure: I meet more people. I experience the place to the fullest. I'm on my own schedule.

My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore them through the story 'Four Feathers' and through this actor called Heath Ledger. I knew that I had to find a 21-year-old who could play wisdom at the end. He's only 21 or 22, and I tested him.