I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Life is truly lived only when we discover other faiths, festivals, languages and cultures.

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it

Respect is not delivered it is earned. If you want more respect in the world treat people with tremendous respect.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

When I'm not happy, I can't play. That's just the way I am.

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.