I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me, like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

Im a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you're put in a bad situation, but you also have to be willing to do something very strange.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.

I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I can't really avoid getting into character.

I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit. There wasn't a ton of pushback about it.

Just remember life is all an illusion.....it's your creation and you can dismantle it and re-create at will.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.

Ever since I was a child, I've always been fascinated with Sherlock Holmes.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.

exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.