I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

I don't particularly like to go see 3D movies, but when I'm doing it I kind of do enjoy it. I enjoy seeing the image in 3D, there's a childhood fun about being able to see those dimensions.

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

Smiles like that should be against the law. Considering what they do to a girl.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

Nature is a language - can't you read?