Theater has always been terrifying to me.

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

adversity is a great tool to self discovery.

A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

The barrier has begun to yield.

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.