“If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.”

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

New Year’s Eve, we’re going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

If you’re happy, you eat. If you’re sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It’s, you know, it’s addiction.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff… And it does take courage.

What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things – good and bad – so that if you’re able to do that, then there’s a kind of resonance that happens.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.

Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.

The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human.

Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.

For me, being onstage for an hour and a half, my confidence was really huge for me. Doing eight shows a week for a run.