When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You can't do smoky ballads for 50 minutes in a concert. It's a different animal.

I write with my left hand even though I'm right-handed, I walk backwards in a very safe place - anything that engages your brain.

The thing I get the most that I really love is that people don't so much mention films I've been in or shows I've been in as they say, instead, 'I love you. I just love your perseverance.' That really pleases me.

'Revolutionary Road' with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They were both so wonderful in it.

Oh, I think Scarlett Johansson is a terrific actress. I think she's just marvelous.