As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you'll only remember the one bad one.

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.

Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible!

If you study of scriptures, you find sacredness of life.

Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

There's always opportunity in the now. If I'm there, I will seize it.