I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.

To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

I got some tartar-control toothpaste a while back. I've still got tartar, but it's under control.

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.