I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead.

Fear only has power when I cower under the illusion.

It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.