My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

we hear brilliant and great suggestions when failure comes our way

Don’t embrace mediocrity

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.

On Sanjay and Craig, Ive had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.

And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!

We grew up with a camera in front of us.

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.