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

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

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.

When you get down on your knees in front of me it won’t be out of gratitude. It’ll be because you want to be there.”--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves

Because, good God, Lily Wellstone had the face of an angel, the body of a goddess, and the spirit of the devil glinting from her eyes. She was a woman worth losing his soul for.

I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Death is the only mystery we all solve.