Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.

The path that reveals itself to you is the path you are meant to take.

It's hard to tread lightly when you continue to accumulate.

In all those faces, I saw, your face.Amen, Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue Circle

The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you’ll catch.

In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.