We're all afraid of suffering or agony or torture. It's only natural in some ways. It's only human, let's say. I don't know how natural it is. It probably is conditioning.

A succulent wild woman is one of any age who feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!

You are sublimely, exactly, how you need to be at this moment.

The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.

In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.

Cheer up every person you interact with (including yourself).

I absolutely trust that every animal and person has their own very necessary journey.

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

There is room for us all to be how we actually are.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it, ” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.

No misery ever so beautiful than the one this mind creates.

It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.

Is it inevitable after a successful film that they're going to ask for another one? Yes. Do we want to rush and do it for that reason? No.

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.