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Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

We always have a good time playing, and I'm glad it shows.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, 'Man, I'd really love to be doing a play right now.' Because I loved doing plays when I was doing them. Then I think, 'I want to do it right now, but will I want to do that Sunday matinee in six weeks?'

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.