I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

Im not your biggest girly girl.

I was an English major in college!

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

A day on a film set is maddening.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

Humans have reason to hate us dragons. If one dragon turns against humankind, he is a great and terrible foe.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

Christ needs people today who are made of martyr stuff! Dare to take a strong, uncompromised stand for Him.

Learn tricks from others, Become a trickster

There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are.

Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

God loves you so much that he is willing to hold something from you for the perfect time!

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.