Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Every journey starts with fear.

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.

I have grown up to be many things, but dainty sure as hell isn't one of them.

We come and we cry and that is life we yawn and we depart and that is death!

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

Sometimes you have to say, "No. This is my space." If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

It is impossible that a fish doesn't carry any smell of the sea and a real love, of the melancholy!

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.