Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!

That being said, I am not one to feel sorry for myself. I believe it is healthy to honor one's feelings and do the best we can to learn and grow from them moving forward.

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.

In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

I think the idea of embodying the physical presence of a character is the same on stage and screen. There are just different levels of expression to keep in mind for each platform.

Knowledge is a mighty tool, but how it will affect a person is unpredictable.

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.