Nobody can ever be fully prepared to deal with a new, painful situation. Sometimes I react with patience and sometimes I react by doing something impulsive. But I always learn from such experiences.

One truth I know for sure is that I am so blessed in my life.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

It is important to always love what you do and do what you love. This is my mentality towards my career and my personal life.

Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.

My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.

Accepting new challenges makes me come alive.

If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.

I love my fans unconditionally. They have been supportive of me through everything, and I would not be here, giving this interview to you, without them.

It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

Everybody knows that I'm shorter, but it doesn't bother me at all.

No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

For me cinema is not primarily entertainment. I don't watch fun blockbusters myself.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.