I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

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

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

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 had somebody say, "I want you at my wedding, but I don't want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!" Losing my anonymity is something that's proving to be very challenging.... It's good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there's so much you can't do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.