Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

Maybe you know exactly what it is you dream of being, or maybe you're paralyzed because you have no idea what your passion is. The truth is, it doesn't matter. You don't have to know. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new.

I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.