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

Im not your biggest girly girl.

I was an English major in college!

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

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.

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?

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.

Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.