Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.

If something's important to you, you make time for it.

Expose the Jesuit order and learn about the global genocide. Speak out, even when what you have to say is not popular.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Many fear mistakes. In TV and films you just re-shoot the scene. In life do the same and just shoot a re-take.

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

If I never have anything from him except this one moment I am going to take it. Take it now, or drown in regret later.

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.

I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy'. I wanted to share (that) story.