Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

We hurt ourselves much more than anyone can hurt us just by believing the stupid thoughts we get sometimes.

Holding on to the past is like groping in the dark room when you have the opportunity to turn on the light. You only stumble, fall and hurt yourself.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

I don't know about other people, but I love to work.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please