All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

Planning of the next day’s activities should be done a night before. This makes you not to be destructed by people and events that do not contribute to the success of your dreams.

Ignorance is more than bliss, it is a recipe for potential disaster.

Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.

The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

I really love things with melody.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.