I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

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.

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?

I know I’m doing something wrong and I feel guilty but neither of those things matter enough to make me stop

Your soul suffers if you live superficially.

Elvis, you're still King.

Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.