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

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?

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

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.

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.

The greatest wealth is well-being.

Heavenly Father, may your will be done in my life, in Jesus Name. Amen

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

She laughed, and the duke might actually have smiled, though one could never be certain.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.