I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I learned respect for comedy. When I was first doing theatre, I thought of it as just a means to become Sarah Bernhardt or someone like that. But acting with young people has been a great learning experience.

People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?

Growing up, I loved drama and fantasies. I hated the Marx Brothers. I took all that confusion seriously.

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