I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.

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

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

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

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.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.