I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you'll only remember the one bad one.

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.

A Sufi will say – Everything is beautiful, even the dirt that clings beneath my feet.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

A fool and his money are soon married.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

I guess I like to find the rhythm in things.