I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

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.

I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well.

Meditation is for many a foreign concept, somehow distant and foreboding, seemingly impossible to participate in. But another word for meditation is simply awareness. Meditation is awareness.

When we are gone, the only essential thing we will leave behind are the memories we create in the lives of those we have touched and those we love.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Winter is where hope lies happy.

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

I deserve to be happy. I'm sad it took me so long to get that. But I get it now.