Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

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.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

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

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.