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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

If I had it to do over, I'd vote for Obama without hesitation. I'm very thankful that McCain and Palin aren't in office.

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

The universe is limitless and so are you. There is a limitless supply of good that the universe wants to show you. Step out of the way and let it be!

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.

I'm not a bona fide human being.

in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.