The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.