“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.

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

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

I think this is the area where writers need to place ourselves: from a position of absolute modernity and contemporaneity, creating a culture of objects which cinema cannot.

For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I’d go into a shoot, there’d be all these dresses, and I’d say to myself, ‘Okay, this isn’t me. It’s somebody else. So, who is this person?’ Acting is the next level of that.

And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.

The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.

I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.