Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.

I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.

It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'