I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

New Zealanders can be a little hostile.

It’s a new era at the Chateau.” Antoine said with a wry smile. “Never thought I’d have a wolf shifter here as a guest.”

It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?

This man was once my salvation. Now, he will be my ruin.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.

Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.