We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?

I know that the theory of evolution is true

A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.

No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Running should be free, man.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

Once you are ready to truly devote your days and times to what your soul came here to do, you will find your life unimaginably enriched.

One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'