All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the "Kazee" is not.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

When you start hiding things away, that’s when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.