It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.