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I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

I've been described as impatient.

Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.