Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned with, though perhaps she doesn't know it yet.

I love it when I come across a word I don't know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren't smart enough to come along with me.

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.

I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.