Now I'll read anytime anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like my substitute for the roaring fireplace of yore.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig which my mother took me to see.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Politics like theater is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because unless we do all of these things it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.