My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.

I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.

I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.

Hope on you is worthless because you make a mark to forgot

Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.

I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Enjoying science shouldn't be rocket science.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.