"Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse."

"Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are."

"I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play."

"Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'"

"I want to leave a lasting impression, not just as a star, but as a genuine actor."

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

"Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both."

"Wisdom principle 62 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 41."