You always have to create the character from the ground up.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

If I can't trust my child with what is happening in our home how do I think he or she will ever experience trust?

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.

No matter what comes your way, don't lose your joy.

Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head