Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.

To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: Be careful.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing.

In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

What would Munchausen do?

There's something scary, knowing that in Florida, someone can pick you up in a car and drive you to 50 states. Back home, it's like, 'Girl, you're 15 minutes away.'

Marketing is always a tricky thing with a rated R movie. Sometimes people just get what it is and they want to come see it, and sometimes you have to explain it more.

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.

Great vocal track on "You can't cheat fate."

I always think under par. You have to believe in yourself.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.