There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.

It's nice when people approach you to help.

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

Sawyer: Alone in your tent? Um, no. You're in my tent

May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?

I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.