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.

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.

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.

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.

Preston smirked. “You’re gonna have to stop calling me things like ‘gorgeous’ and ‘beautiful.’ I’m gonna get a complex. Why can’t I be ‘sexy,’ or maybe ‘irresistible’?

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

It's always easy to get parts when you're a guy!

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.