When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my résumé with everything I had ever done-ice-skate, carry a tune.

Im a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you're put in a bad situation, but you also have to be willing to do something very strange.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.

I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I can't really avoid getting into character.

I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me, like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

Never reward a solder for doing whats expected

If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution

If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.