I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.

My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.

I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.

This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

Belief in God, without belief in the Prophet (SAWW), would still be unbelief.

fingers of wind combed the lake into ridges—icy palm prints glistened wherever it rested

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.

The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.