Quotes

[on developing a creepy character by assuming the role in real life] I walked around .. with this angry, resentful sense of the world..I was cynical. Suspicious. Of everyone. You know, counting my change in front of storekeepers. Things like that. Being incredibly judgmental.

[on the appeal of developing a character onstage] I think I have to do it. I think it's a calling. I don't mean to sound pretentious about that, but I'm not happy unless I'm doing it or pursuing it in some way. It's like my life doesn't make any sense. So I think it's mostly that, and then it's just fun. And I love telling stories. I think stories connect us as human beings, and through story we are allowed to talk about things and present difficult subjects.

[on the 'Felix Unger' character] He's not a macho guy, but there are lots of guys who aren't macho who aren't gay. He loves women, he's just a control freak. I think it's interesting to have a male character who's really sensitive. In that day and age they weren't, and still in some ways we're not allowed to be.

[on the enduring appeal of 'The Odd Couple'] It's something we don't get to see a lot in theatre. We see lots of plays where women have friendships, but I don't know a lot of plays where the central drive of it is the friendship between two men. I think it's a really clever concept, simple but very clever. If we do it right there's a lot of opportunity for it to be very touching.