The world is both big and small at the same time. So you really do need to know TV, film and theater. Everyone is kind of moving through all different mediums. So I think it's important to be able to do those things.

I'll see anything that Humphrey Bogart did. Weird, quirky, I know but that's the way it is.

I'm always interested in something that Helen Mirren is doing. I thought her series Prime Suspect was unbelievable. I think she might be my favorite actress.

You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

So often, I have seen really, really talented performers never quite relating to material. I mean, there's a lot of gay actors, for example, that are obviously gay. They're not going to be able to do some of the material. Some of them they can, some of them they can't.

Do not think your story [for a one-person show] is unique. . . . your story is the same as millions of others. But that's o.k. - you just need to find the one or two things that makes your story interesting enough to justify someone leaving their apartment and exchanging currency.

A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!