I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes. They had these archaic rules: for example, girls couldn't wear makeup. I found it so outrageous that an all-boys school could tell girls to not wear makeup! So I went on a campaign. I got a petition signed and everything. If a girl wants to wear makeup to boost confidence, why not?

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

I think beauty is an expression of love.

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

What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

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.

With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.