and not just repeat it, because it's not a verbatim thing that you're doing. it's a repeating of the emotional beats and making those connections between all those emotional beats night after night. >> who are the greatest actors of your lifetime? >> the ones that i admire greatly were jason robards and robert duvall. those were guys when i was young, when i was watching all the films and to some degree theater, i was on the cusp between the great legends like john wayne and kirk douglas and burt lancaster but along was coming also deniro and al pacino but for me, i was intrigued by those guys who didn't look or they didn't sound like the movie stars were supposed to look. >> i talked to your wife on this show a few months ago. >> yeah? >> she was unfortunately very nice about you.