[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

I used to enjoy doing silly walks on the street with my friends. Like, you know, you're walking, and then you break out in something completely ridiculous, to kind of spook out the person walking by you. I can't really do that anymore.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

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

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor