"Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy."

"So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles."

"I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special."

"I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am."

"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground."

"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends."

"In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living."

"And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there."