I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.

Prayer is a path where there is none.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.

the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.