As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

Im not your biggest girly girl.

I was an English major in college!

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

A day on a film set is maddening.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.

Next time I want to do something nice, slap me.

If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.