In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.

I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.

I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater.

I think it's cool people love to hate me.

I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people, and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing.

When we fellowship with people, we fellowship with God

I like my whiskey neat and strong just as I like my women. Women who have matured in their minds and bodies

I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

I'm living three dreams: Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's. Cause we can't get along, no resolution? 'Til we drown all these haters... Rest in peace to Whitney Houston

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.