I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

Early on in my career, I used to get out in the 30s, 40s, fifties, and 60s. So I really appreciated reaching my first hundred.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

We didn't grow up in a jock household. In fact, my dad is an entrepreneur. He was a computer programmer; he was a professor of actuarial science at Wharton for 13 years, then started his own company that was software-based.

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.