I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run... Let yourself fail... And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

I didn’t know that it was going to launch a quote-unquote comedic career. I just wanted to do anything other than wait tables.

My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.

I think we're all guilty of mistaking the actors we've seen over and over again - we think we know them.

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I was a very good actor when I did that.