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.

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

The harder the race, the better.

Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,' 'Modern Family' and 'The Walking Dead.' Sometimes I'll sip red wine - it's a nice way to slow down and relax.

When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.

We've got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we're going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us in the world.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

When one lifts a ballerina it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'

Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.