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

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.

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

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

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.

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost

Every day I grow in the wisdom that my soul is vibrationally connected to the Universe.

Izzy. Sweet, beautiful, but eternally strange Izzy.

Money can't buy life.

Hillary Clinton is not a winner.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

Witch hunters is white women’s worry.

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.