It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?

It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death.

All those who die in the Lord, will rise in the resurrection day.

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time.

If I showed you where I live, you would think that I was hiding

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

What you think is what you get.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.