I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

Soul power supersedes mind power.

No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

Don't tell me what to do - you have eight numbers after your name just like me.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.