I haven't yet figured out how to be a celebrity; that's something I'm learning, and I wish there were a course on how to handle it. I have to be aware that my kinesphere may be larger than I want it to be.

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.

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.

I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.

I dress according to how I feel.

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

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