Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for popularity is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.

It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

I'm actually very spiritual.