I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself