The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally ….

I think the writers give us different people to work with, different situation scenarios to be in and there's always that fun balance of, you know, t….

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thou….

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audie….

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible..

The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the….

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a come….

I'm not just another bimbo..

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people t….

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been ….

Everything in life is theater..

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment..

I've aged, but grown up? No..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..