It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

When I see what I want, I do it.

Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life.

Peace and love, peace and love!

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first." Of course I do. Gale.

I am ill at these numbers.