I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.

I'll see anything that Humphrey Bogart did. Weird, quirky, I know but that's the way it is.

I'm always interested in something that Helen Mirren is doing. I thought her series Prime Suspect was unbelievable. I think she might be my favorite actress.

I love Paris. I've been there a number of times.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!

Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice.

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies

Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

I'm just trying to get a window seat on the way to Hell.