Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.

We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.

I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.

I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.

I never try to avoid 'Ugly Betty' fans, as I love them.

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

The end of the play is kind of the beginning.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.

A good role comes along, and a good role is a good role.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.

I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure.

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but its too much on me.

The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.