What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.

My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.

I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.

I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time’.

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.