I so never went through a bad-girl period.

Im not your biggest girly girl.

I was an English major in college!

You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

A day on a film set is maddening.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.

I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them that honour me I will honour."

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.