You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

Im not your biggest girly girl.

I was an English major in college!

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

A day on a film set is maddening.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.

In Cree, an oskâpêwis is a servant or a helper, someone who hauls in rocks for sweats, or pipes or medicines. I equate that to leadership. You're a servant or helper of people.

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery