When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.

In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.

The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

I work hard and support myself.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.

Anything is possible with Trump.

We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

The fun of getting dressed is it's a creative experience.

Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.