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.

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.

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?

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Father! Blessed word.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

Light that is One though the lamps be many.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.