To Be Too Knowing Is A Downfall.

Things Get Complicated At Times, So There Are Certainly Moments When You Wish Your Life Were Different. That's True For Everybody, Not Just People In Our Profession. But There's Nothing I Feel Like I Gave Up Professionally. I'm Absolutely Doing What I Enjoy.

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.

I Don't Mind Aging. I Mean, My Whole Thing Is, It's Just A Privilege To Age.

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 Enjoy Learning About Different Periods And People, And Then Taking What's Universal About The Human Condition And Seeing Where It Matches Up. No Matter Where You Are, Certain Things Unite Everybody.