I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that, they should balance themselves by doing a role as a yoga teacher.

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.

I've always been a tech-head.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

My memory is not even what most peoples is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.