I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

You find your tribe and you stick with them.

My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people.

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

Being bullied means you’re special and that’s what I want all kids to know.

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.