No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.