My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.

Sometimes broken people teach broken people how to be whole again.

Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.