I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?