Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.

This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won.

There aren't a lot of great parts out there that are interesting for people in my category.

There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire