Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.

In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.

When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.

The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

I work hard and support myself.

A seed only begins to manifest its greatest potential the day it is buried in dirt.

I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.