"Confidence sells -- people believe in those who believe in themselves. No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people who feel like they don't deserve to be there. Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it."

“Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.”

“I'd been on 'SVU' before and I'd been on 'Criminal Intent,' but I wasn't a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it.”

Source : "‘Law And Order: SVU’: Kelli Giddish Talks Playing Mariska Hargitay’s ‘Lover,’ James Van Der Beek Episode And More". Interview With Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

“I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.”

“The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.”

“It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.”

“I've tried the female thing. I was in a movie called Dinner for Schmucks a couple of years ago with Steve Carell and I created a female character for that movie. And after a few months of trying her out on the road it just didn't work. I mean, I can think like a terrorist, I can think like a white trash guy, I can even try and think like an African American, but I can't figure out how a woman.”

Source : TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

“I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.”

“love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.”

Source : Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”