“There is a great amount of precision within each individual’s technique and role in the play. When you put 22 of them out there, it can look chaotic but when you break down individual performance, it looks less so.”

After several years in the league, when a player becomes a vested veteran in the NFL, they play under a different set of rules. For instance, if you cut a vested veteran mid-season and they don’t get picked up by another team, you owe them the remainder of their salary.

A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level – often with injury – and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

We’re already seeing women breaking down those barriers in what was once male-dominated. There are opportunities for women to fill those roles.

Some roles have been with me forever

I’ve been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I’m not dead!

Yes. I’m a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

The role of the comedian is to say ‘Wait a minute’ when a consensus starts to form.

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable