I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

I think things like YouTube and Twitter are really cool and really good in some ways, but the fact that the news is cutting to a YouTube clip on national TV, I think is really weird.

Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under!

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno.

Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."