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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.

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

If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they're in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters - then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that.

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.