Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be insid

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Don't look around for the path you are meant to follow, forge it yourself.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The superfluous is very necessary.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.

Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.