I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

One thing we do well within evangelicalism is in thinking of Jesus as our friend. But He is also our King.