I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life.

My music is not lovely.

You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different.