I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.

If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.

I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

If I asked you, "Do you think you're beautiful?" everyone should say yes.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

Everyone should love themselves, should think that they're beautiful.

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

I write because I cannot NOT write.

a lack of communication is preferable to a profusion of miscommunications.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.