I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.

The older I get, the more I appreciate what came before.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.

I really love being a character actor.

I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'

Now, the magic of British parks at night, as Bill Oddie presents.. Gaywatch.

Nothing in the world is as certain as death.

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.