Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

I looked like a boy for a long time. Now I feel like a woman.

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.