It's easier to do an action scene than a love scene. I love fighting. When the camera's not rolling, I'll usually punch some of the actors, just for fun.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves

You think this is a walk in the park, that it’s all beauty pageants and tea parties? Come on girl, wake up! This is survival at its most intense.

The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.

The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.