I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.

Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.

May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lecture on The Darker Side of Chocolate