The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

I've always been kind of precocious, but my journey sort of solidified when I was in college and majored in theater. That's how I knew I wanted to spend my life writing, telling, and performing stories.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.