I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

I've always had that going on: "I can't," and then I do, so the voice says, "Well, that was an exception!" It's a tug-of-war between two voices: the one who knows she can and the one who's scared she can't.