Even though I'm on a show that I love with people that I love - I have basically the dream job - that doesn't mean I'm not getting rejected on a daily basis.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.

Monsters were wild. Monsters were strong. Monsters were fierce and free.If I was monstrous...perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.

Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.--Marjorie Branell-Markson

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.

Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.