I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.

A joyful soul is the choice to dwell on amazing gift of life than the challenges.

Blanchefleur felt a quick rush of affection for her. When the world frowned, Branwen went on smiling. There was a heart of steel under all that froth and bubble.

The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

Bring a sword to school. Trust me-those girls will leave you alone.

Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip.

The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited.