"I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play."

"Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse."

"If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words."

"Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift."

"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names."

"Wisdom principle 92 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 1."

"Wisdom principle 41 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 37."

"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."