I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.