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A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.