Performance Decision Quotes

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.

I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.

It took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted - I'd been acting professionally since my mid-20s and had some pretty big Shakespearean roles under my belt by that stage, at 32: Petruchio in 'The Taming of the Shrew,' Edgar in 'King Lear,' Antony, Richard III. But when it came to Hamlet, I hesitated.

I don't have to do Gregg Allman songs.

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.