And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

Light — i.e. space — is the structure of time, the essence of existence. The stuff of physics does not involve time. Orthodox contemporary physics sadly refers to this fact as “the problem of time.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

One thing about Germany - they'll be organised, they'll be big and they'll be strong.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there.

I do think that all of us think in poems.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.