I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

My testimony helps me to establish priorities in my life.

Sometimes it's what you don't say that counts.