I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, 'What if that didn't bother me?' 'What if I knew exactly what he was talking about?' 'What if I didn't get excited?'

What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.

When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I'm a South Asian female that talks about relationships and periods and dating and all these things.

I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.