Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

Mediocrity is underrated.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

My mother is a beauty.

I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.

Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.

To the sick while there is life there is hope.

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.

[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

Careless talk costs lives.

Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

Unfortunately, the source of all this conflict between the Sunnis and Shia is some major powers that do not want religious unity amongst Muslims.

You can never get ahead by trying to get even.