A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

I'm sort of coming of age into a different time of acting, and I feel kind of like a kid again. I used to think that I could climb anything, do anything. But I've just been like a skinny white girl my whole life.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.