If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.