I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.