I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Coolidge really hated government being in the power business. He thought it was wrong. He saw the potential for growth in the power business. He didn't want the federal government in it.

A man is powerful on his knees.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

Michelle Obama - they don't call her Mooch-elle for nothing.

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

Art is an emotional experience