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I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I want to show audiences I can act.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.