The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.
I just create, that's what I do.
I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.
We're not show-business people. We have a life.
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?
New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.
My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.
Nothing has ever come easy for me.
What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.
I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.
I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.
The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story about the purchase of a wife by a Wisconsin businessman. The research of that would have been really interesting.
I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.
