Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me.

Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

Each man has his fancy.

I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.