Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

You solely owe success and happiness to yourself. So why not make your inner-self proud of your daily decisions and actions?

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

This is our high and holy calling-to be agents of Jesus Christ, to love as He loved, to serve as He served.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?