Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!

Meditation is a flower, and compassion is its fragrance.

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

Some of us are inclined to look to the weaknesses and shortcomings of others in order to expand our own comfort zone.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.