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

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.

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.

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

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.

I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal’s future.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society’s image of old people and ‘us’ as we know and feel ourselves to be.

Trust me when I say: Your commitment to love is crucial in the awakening of the world.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.