"Soul of fibre and heart of oak."

“If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag.”

“Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation”

“No one ever gets to see Foley artists at work, and they're so strange. They see the world differently: things as things that might make sounds that sound like other things. They see the whole world that way - like when you're a house painter, all you see is a bunch of houses that need painting.”

“Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.”

Source : "Does Joe Sestak Have A Chance?" by Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. August 4, 2009.

“Actors never discuss future plans.”

“I do a lot of conferences, and I did a campaign with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation called "Just Say Hi." They get celebrities to record little messages about how you start a conversation with someone who has a disability, which is to "Just say hi."”

“People who know me now can't believe I used to be shy, but in some ways I still am.”

“Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.”

Source : "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.