I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.

The older I get, the more I appreciate what came before.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.

I really love being a character actor.

I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

When it comes to matters of dealing with the Government, one has to go through red tape just to get to the actual red tape.

Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.

If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday

The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die.