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The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.