I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.

You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.

Find It, Live It, Love It.

The ocean cradles the bloodied moon in its aquatic arms like a mother holds her crying babe.

The love of every single one of my lives.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

In politics, when you're explaining, you're losing.