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

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 can be happy going to the hardware store.

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

As television is learning some of the movies’ great tricks, movies are taking what’s good from TV.

Don’t just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.

This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.