I'm incredibly grateful for Sophie Barthes, I'll always be incredibly grateful for her being generous enough to believe in what I thought. And it was just lucky that I met the right person.

I suppose it's really satisfying to play someone with secrets. It's really satisfying to decide how and when those things are going to start being revealed, and how subtle to be.

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.

There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, "This is lunacy." But then once my parents could tell that I was serious, it was like, "Okay then."

Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder.

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades?

My spirit is simply rekindled with each one of your words.

Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?

People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism.

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.

You make your own choices, Kira, and you can’t let anyone ever take that away from you.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

I feel like a cliche.

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.