Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now

Sadie gave her head an exaggerated scratch. ‘Don’t come too close if you know what’s good for you, these nits are on steroids.

JUST BECAUSE ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE SHOULD (Mrs. Peters to Conner Bailey)

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Saw a man in Whole Foods yelling at his son, What are you doing?! You know I don't eat bread!! Is there such a thing as health food abuse?

We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

I didn't really like doing commercials.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.