I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.

The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!

That being said, I am not one to feel sorry for myself. I believe it is healthy to honor one's feelings and do the best we can to learn and grow from them moving forward.

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.

In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?

The questions we don’t ask become the puzzles we don’t solve.

Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

If all babies are so cute, how the hell do we have so many ugly people in the world?

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.