I really love being a character actor.

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 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 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'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.

Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.

No level of attention is ever enough to sacrifice your dignity.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.