You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

Beauty is not everything!

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.

The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

I'm an old-fashioned girl.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Theatre is immediate gratification.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

We as humans are so imperfect. We are always looking for something more and always going astray from Jesus. Whether you believe in him or not, but he is always there with open arms. God never abandons you. He is always waiting for you to come back and when you do, you won't be scolded - you will be embraced.

There's no real road map to L.A. Everyone's journey is different. You have to persevere and be willing to put everything in it. You have to stick it out. I don't really have a safety net, but what I do is put myself in the best possible position to succeed by working hard. Also, be careful who you let into your life.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

It isn't always a change of scenery needed to make life better. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes.

Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami.

My parents told me angels arent real. I used to believe them but then I saw you.

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but generally it's a matter of projecting who the audience will be, which is a judgment that's based on the subject matter. 'Mainstream' is the cleanest label for a book that draws readers of both sexes and from a wide age-range.

If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.