I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'

It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'

I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.

One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.

Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.

'Broadway Bound' is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.