When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.