What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.

I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

If my life had gone in a different direction - some of the choices you makes when you're in your teens and your early 20s, I fortunately feel that I haven't been marked by those things.

The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.

... everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

I think I lead a really real life.

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.