I learned nothing while I was in school.

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.

I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.