The writers could always do an about-face and change everything

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.

I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool!

What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

My family life mirrors why I am the person I am.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.