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

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 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.

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

If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we’re both going to say ouch.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.

I’m not going to impugn anyone’s integrity. I’m not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I’m not going to go personal with them.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

I’m on a team with LeBron James and Chris Bosh, and they both dress well. It gets competitive. If I don’t bring my A game, they’re going to outshine me.

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.