IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

Anyone who influences others is a leader.

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

Every beginning is cheerful.

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.