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

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

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

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.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

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. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.