'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.

My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.

I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.

When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.

I was always a big fan of 'Pippin' and 'Godspell,' even before I heard 'Meadowlark.'

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.