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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.