For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.

Wash your face before bed every night. Your skin will thank you - and your pillow too!

My mother would always say that we had to look very presumida, and I took that to heart. Latinas take a lot of pride in looking their best and that might mean putting a little mascara on.

You are a beautiful and wonderful soul. Recognise and illuminate it.

There is madness in every single being, is there not?

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

So much of the pain we feel is based on resistance to what we can't change. Allowing yourself to let go and feel how you feel in the moment is a blissful thing.

Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.