I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

Theater has always been terrifying to me.

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.

I try to be a positive light in this cold dark world... if only with a few words from deep within my heart, I try

...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

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