I'm a huge Sissy Spacek fan.

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.

We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.

A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.

It feels good to get sacks and to know I can do it.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now