You don't take on anything unless there's fear.

We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

A big part of me just lets everything go.

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free.

As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

I'm a tomboy. I really love sports. I'm really looking forward to being the sniper gal, running around and shooting zombies. I find that really exhilarating.

Wrong perceptions cannot be removed by guns and bombs. They should be removed by deep listening, compassionate listening, and loving space.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.