"I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff."

"Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor."

"I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship."

"I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody."

"It is a quiet truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless."

"It is a quiet truth that to speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a radiant truth that every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below."