I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find it and treasure it...

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.Remember this.

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play...

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.

Winners see the gain; losers see the pain.

I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants and jeans kind of gal, I dress really simply and comfortably.