My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.

Smiles show fullness of a joyful soul.

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

I don’t really believe in aliens. I like to think of them as planet challenged.

School is tough sometimes, but it’s all about knowing who your real friends are.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.

Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.

Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.