I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.

When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.

I like to stay fit, because [that's when] I feel really healthy.

I'm very authentic, I think, and what I mean by that is whatever roles that I do take on, I'm really passionate about it.

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.