What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Each person has a literature inside them.

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.