I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

No one thinks that they're a monster. No one thinks that of themselves. Everyone has an earnest belief that it would be better if they were in power.

I know that touching you will be understanding my fingers for the first time.

Courage and clemency are equal virtues.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Where your attention goes, you go.

It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.

Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

You can't change your game based on where you're playing.