“I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.”

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes.

There are some people who’re all doctors. Is it genetic?

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

I don’t look at her like she’s a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she’s a little troubled, she’s a little dysfunctional. She’s a survivor.

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years.

I’m the worst person about publicizing myself.

I would say that it’s important and probably crucial, but I wouldn’t say that everyone has to have it.

It’s nice when people approach you to help.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I’d done since I went out on my own at 15.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn.

I can be happy going to the hardware store.

Steve Jobs doesn’t use a Mac, and won’t, because it’s too crappy in his opinion.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus’ name.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.