When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Each second is a second you can make a new choice, a better choice, a healthy choice, a present choice.

Having been through a tremendous amount of emotional pain, to process it properly, to be able to have it make sense and then move it through your body, your mind, your spirit, and be done with it, you really have to address it head-on. Being able to really have the courage enough to truly face it, to truly look at it, to truly feel it.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you; it will start your day off in a positive way.

The answers we're looking for are all within ourselves, we just need to become better connected, more present - to what we eat, to nature, to our surroundings and to our inner guide.