There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, they've forgotten that, and they leave going, 'Wow - what an amazing play.'
Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.
I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.
As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.
One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.
I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.
My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.
I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.
Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.
My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.
We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.
I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.
Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.
The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also discovering it with your fellow actors. We're all in it together.
I love doing impressions.
I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.
