I Was Very Interested In

I Find I Have To Walk A Little Faster In Public These Days, But It's Very Easy To Remember When Nobody Had Any Idea Who I Was.

The Problem Is That People Are Pulling Farther Apart, Rather Than Make An Effort To Get Back Together. There Have Been Remarkable Moments That United This Country. It Makes Everyone Feel Relieved. Then Because Of Economic Stress, Political Shifts, We Get Wrenched Apart Again. I Think It's Cyclical. I Am An Optimist By Nature. There Are Moments, The Period After 9/11, The Way We Responded. The Election Of Barack Obama. There Are Moments Where The Country Felt Good About Being American. I'm Waiting For That To Happen Again.

Having Grown Up In The Theater Family, Having Done A Huge Amount Of Acting From A Very Little Boy To Precocious Teenager In Shakespeare Festivals That My Father Produced, I Went Off To College And Fell In With The Theater Gang. I Was Already An Experienced Actor. I Became A Kind Of Campus Star. I Heard All This Applause And Laughter.

If You Read In Front Of Your Kids, It's Very Likely That They'll Become Readers, Too

I Went To Princeton High School, When I Was Very Serious About Being An Artist. I Was In A Theatre Family But I Didn't Want To Become An Actor.