Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

It's wild to be seen differently and have more visibility, but it's rewarding.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

I've learned a lot about the limits of what I can do, as an artist, or what I'm willing to do. It's a lot of responsibility to carry a show and to speak to people on different levels.

I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.

I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

I am trying to ignore each of my thoughts and each of my stories and books... if I read them... they never sound well, but still we shouldn't go like...to do everything perfect and all perfect...

She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.

She did not care what a ludicrous picture she might be painting, a fat happy old lady in her night gown, swinging on a small little swing in the dead of the night.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.

If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!

I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.