Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

No one thinks that they're a monster. No one thinks that of themselves. Everyone has an earnest belief that it would be better if they were in power.

You realise you’re going to owe me dinner after this, right?”“How does McDonald’s sound?”“Inadequate.

If you haven't proclaimed it in your own life, do it now. Say, "I am an artist.

Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.

Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love.

The best entrepreneurs never confuse motion with results.

A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.