I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

To take the island, cut all sources of retreat. Burn your boats and go all in.

God is always present. We’re the ones who show up.

Her bluebird of happiness is teal.

It is not how many years we live but rather what we do with them.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.

A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

Kohaku aren't you afraid to die? No. Truly, there is neither fear nor hesitation in your eyes.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.