We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all want opportunity.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

Run the race of life with all endurance.

I detest 'Jingle Bells, ' 'White Christmas, ' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, ' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.

Ignorance is constricted awareness.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

The reform of government needs to continue.

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?