I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

I sometimes skip meals when I travel.

I do Pilates and yoga and try to eat healthy.

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

Well, I'm also like 23 and playing 16. So maybe when I'm 30 I'll be playing characters in their early 20s. I don't know.

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

No one can escape slavery

Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to followintuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path mightlead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.

I make films about working class people.