I Crave A Cone Of Silence Every

It Was So Soon After I'd Had My Son And I Really Wasn't Planning On Going Back To Work For A While. I Will Walk Over Hot Coals To Work With Bill Condon On Anything, The Experience That You Have With Him Is Just Too Good... I've Certainly Never Worked With Him Before So The Trio Of Bill [codon], Ian [mckellen], And Sherlock Holmes, And England: It Was Too Much To Say "no" To.

Theater Is The Foundation Of How I Live My Life, Actually. My Father Was A Playwright, So I Was Around It All The Time And Loved To Talk Shop With Him, Just Loved It. And Basically Everything That I Hold To Be Good And True And Worthy, I Learned In The Theater. So Not Even Just About The Work, But Just About Life. Discipline, Problem Solving, Creativity, How To Get Along With People.

I Think The Way We Talk About Cancer Has Really Evolved. I Remember The Way My Grandmother Used To Talk About It, Like A Death Sentence, No-one Would Even Mention The Word.

I Always Laugh To Myself When I Listen To Some Really Big A-list Star Saying That They Are Just A Normal Person.

I Think Everyone's Journey Through This Crazy, Weird, Wild, Wonderful Area Of Work Named Acting Is Really Their Own. And If You're Going For Something That Isn't Yours, You're Wasting Time. You Could Be Focused On Your Own Work Instead Of Thinking About Somebody Else.