I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.

Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.

My fantasy is that I could wake up looking amazing, that I could be strong and stop the bully, but that everybody would love me, too. I think that's intrinsic to fantasy - fantasy is fantasy.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

Shame internalized can lead to agony. Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon, and as such is very difficult to define because there are exceptions to every conceivable rule.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.