I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.

It's nice when people approach you to help.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

Creativity & innovation is to events, what the heart & soul is to the living

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.

Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.

I do bookstore signings, and it seems to me that I get a variety of men and women, more women than I'd expect, and grown-ups among my readers.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.