So often, I have seen really, really talented performers never quite relating to material. I mean, there's a lot of gay actors, for example, that are obviously gay. They're not going to be able to do some of the material. Some of them they can, some of them they can't.

Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice.

The world is both big and small at the same time. So you really do need to know TV, film and theater. Everyone is kind of moving through all different mediums. So I think it's important to be able to do those things.

I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

I'll see anything that Humphrey Bogart did. Weird, quirky, I know but that's the way it is.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

I love Paris. I've been there a number of times.