A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!

You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.

I'll see anything that Humphrey Bogart did. Weird, quirky, I know but that's the way it is.

I'm always interested in something that Helen Mirren is doing. I thought her series Prime Suspect was unbelievable. I think she might be my favorite actress.

I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

I love Paris. I've been there a number of times.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice.

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves... they feel better then. They find it easier to live.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot on TV.

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.

Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing.

a small spark can start a great fire

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desirable in all that is ahead.