My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

Your vulnerability is your power.

Where the terror is, is where you must go.

I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

If you just sit and spend time with yourself - you were born as you, just you, and that's how you're gonna die. Why do we spend the time in between trying to not be ourselves? That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself. Through all of it. It's like John Patrick Shanley said: "Where the terror is, you must go." Where the terror is, is where you must go.