I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

Im not your biggest girly girl.

I was an English major in college!

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

A day on a film set is maddening.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

Time should be reproduced and multiplied

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

When it comes to social issues, Republicans dont just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Behold not with anger the sins of man, but forgive and cleanse.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

[When you're on fire] it feels like nobody's out there, you're playing by yourself. You don't care how good a defender is guarding you.