When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.

It's nice when people approach you to help.

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky.

In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

Tennis is the loneliest sport.

Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.