A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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.
I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.
I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.