To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.