I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

I don't like working in front of a camera.

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.

To love is to destroy, to destroy is to love. -Jace Herondale

It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Everybody gon' say something. I'd be worried if they said nothing.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'