I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

Ive heard of nothing coming from nothing, but Ive never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something and then when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Faith is a big thing we explore.

I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.

In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.

I can be quite daring with my clothes but I believe that you have to feel comfortable and confident to carry off whatever it is you're wearing.

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.