I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

I would love to do an all Laura Nyro show.

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a movie star would be a very dangerous place.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn’t help make things any better.

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.

Strength is magical, just a little bit more can mean the difference between success and failure.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.