I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked, ' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.

Nothing worth having is easy to get.

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.