It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

I seek out good work.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

My eyes and spirit have opened up since I found someone that I get to share my life with.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

I hate wasting people's time.

Religions get lost as people do.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.