It was a dream to be on Broadway as a kid, so to actually end up there, I loved it.

Anyone can play anyone in Shakespeare. I don't think there are limits.

There is a lot more opportunity now, and I welcome all the conversations we are having about diversity, about women and about class... I come from a very working-class background, and I think the class thing is still probably more tricky.

Being in the theatre is like being in a little family: you get really close.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.

I do sometimes talk about my cancer because that's something people relate to a lot, as we're all going to die. Because I've been close to death and won, I have strong opinions about it, and I've learned how to discuss it and keep the energy high in the show.