Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee.

Are we always to be wantingwhat isn't:the greenest grassaccord and principlemotherhood and career?Yet our age lies to uslike an asp, whispering. "Both.

I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.

I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.

If you're a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I'm concerned, and you're working hard to put food on your family.

If you just want to make stuff and put it out there so people can see that, great. Do that. Nothing is ever going to stop you.

It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.