"I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act."

"My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way."

"I think a good relationship is about collaboration."

"I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am."

"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"The art of living is discovering that authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."