"Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like."

"Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did."

"I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home."

"I always bring my Jiffy Esteam steamer to get the wrinkles out of our clothes. It's powerful enough to press a suit."

"Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people."

"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."

"I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger."

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."