Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Doing the right thing has power.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

So why not live with the magic? Be a kid again and believe in the fantastical. Life is more fun with a little smoke and mirrors.

We are all happy if we only knew it.

Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.

And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.