Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change.

If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.