To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesnt work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.

True badassery has no gender.

We need to organize and figure out our own voice as a bloc and stop doubting ourselves.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.

I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.

When you make a deliberate effort to keep your thoughts positive, and authentically feel that way, more positive outcomes are inevitable.

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

I don't know how to be anything but myself.

Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.