Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages.

I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.

I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Deep within each one of us lies a garden.

Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.

I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.