I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I like to take a character and develop it

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine

I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

Now you may hear songs of kindness From every singing bird And from every dancing heart Let kindness be the part of your being

Heavenly Father, pour your spirit upon me, I desire to do your will in Jesus Name. Amen!!

Fate will unwind as it must!

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

Don't use social media to impress people; use it to impact people.

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.