Quote

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me all that money to go around the country and do Shakespeare. I would have done it for free.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer.

I want 'Rent' to last forever.

You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.