Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice.

You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.

I'll see anything that Humphrey Bogart did. Weird, quirky, I know but that's the way it is.

I'm always interested in something that Helen Mirren is doing. I thought her series Prime Suspect was unbelievable. I think she might be my favorite actress.

I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

I love Paris. I've been there a number of times.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it’s the one that has become adapted to the desires of society as a whole.

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.

Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow.

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

I would never put a movie on YouTube unless the funding was right, or unless YouTube paid for it or something.

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

When ignorance reigns, life is lost...