As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.

We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.

Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

Since I found you no more cold nights and no more lonely days. Nothing makes me happier than knowing that I will have and hold you for as long as I live.

We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.