I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.

My regular school didn't know what to do with me!

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

I always feel like a goofy little kid.

Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.