My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

Im a character actor at heart.

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always.

A field which feeds you, a river which gives you water are much holier than all other so-called holy places!

First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

The only limit is the one you set yourself.

Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.