It's nice when people approach you to help.

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.

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.

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.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

I never thought the brightest smile would come from a mouth without teeth.

Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck.