I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

Whenever you feel your light dimming, you can snap yourself back into feeling good with the simple mantra, ‘I’m getting brighter and brighter and brighter and brighter!

In Buddhism we also interprete Dharma to mean 'cessation, ' as in the end of dissatisfaction, the end of dukkha. This is the purpose of Buddha's teachings.

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

I never met a person from whom I did not learn something.

I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

In the morning I get out of bed, I brush my teeth, I wash my face, I get dressed in the clothes I like best. I want to be good to myself.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

You will look into my eyes and you will know I am The Game and that I am that damn good!