“Coming from a background of being onstage, you’re onstage for two and a half hours and you’re in it for the whole time no matter what you’re doing. Even if you don’t have a line, you have to stay in it.”

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you’re playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.

I’m ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I’ll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

What is wrong with you people?

After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

Singing for stage, if you don’t hear yourself, that’s when you push, and that’s when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren’t enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

I feel like I’ve been dealing with that building over the years because of the Broadway community, so I’m treating it in the same way – I’ve always tried to keep my personal life private. I didn’t get into this business for notoriety or fame. I don’t go to places to be seen and that’s not going to change.

I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I’d watch them over and over.

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Life doesn’t move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

I listen to all kinds of music, but I’ve always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I’m in my car, that’s what I listen to.

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

I can clap with one hand.

They support the concept of it even though they know it won’t work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure ‘well if criminals aren’t supposed to have guns what’s the big deal about a background check,’

If you don’t have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.

In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you

Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal.

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

I’m a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.