If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

When I look at the work, if it speaks to me, I'll say 'yes' and if the work doesn't resonate with me, I'll politely decline.

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.