I love doing both theater and television. I definitely foresee more Broadway, but I think I would like to keep the singing and the TV separate.

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home Mom.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.

Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.

My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.

I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence.-General Wedge Antilles

And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.