No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.

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.

You can get what you want or you can just get old.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I just think women should support women.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

I didn't buy the piano to play it, I bought it because it looks nice.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.