I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

Nobody acts purely selfishly.

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.

I think listening to people is helpful.

It is so important to remember that, while I love my job, there are other fantastic avenues to explore in my life.

I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.

As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and that what you withhold is as important as what you share.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.

I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.