Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, too.

When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Define yourself or be defined.

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

It's so nice to have sane friends. I imagine.

You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.