We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

You do not grow stronger by accident - you grow stronger by intention.

We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.