I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

Mediocrity is underrated.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

My mother is a beauty.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.

One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.

Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

I wanted to make a small movie about a guy and a girl on the beach, but then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a werewolf was there?

Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one.