I'm usually sort of ambiguous in terms of whether I'm playing a good person or a bad person. I can walk that line of funny but also dark, and I'm happy doing that.

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.

When you're going to spend a couple of weeks with people, you want to be with people that are enjoyable.

When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.

When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You read it and you go, "Oh, that makes sense." And it's easy.

If I play one psychic, then I'm playing a psychic at least three or four more times.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

You never know how things are going to turn out.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.

People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.