Quotes
- “I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn’t I excused for ‘exhaustion’ or ‘the flu’?”
- “There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.”
- “If I ever start talking to you about my ‘craft’, my ‘instrument’, you have permission to shoot me.”
- “I believe in fate. I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it’s important to seek out that reason – that’s how you learn.”
- “I believe you can be the person that you dream of being.”
- “I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as an actor. I want people to have movies full of romance and hope and empowerment, something they can escape into and feel good about. I love happy endings.” – On her favorite movies to make
- “Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma.” – On her morning routine
- “I love levity. As crazy as I am, I just love to laugh!”
- “When I lay my head on the pillow at night, I can say “I was a decent person today”. That’s when I feel beautiful.”
- “There’s nothing like the power of a smile.”
- “I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.”
- “My parents are not bad people. It was just a case of them not wanting a child.”
- “You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.”
- “As much light as I have inside me, there’s just as much darkness, I’m afraid. There’s a polarity, and I still have demons to work out.”
- “I love women who have fought to the change the world and made a difference. I want to be one of them myself.”
- “I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. If somebody walks in the room and they’re drop-dead gorgeous and sexy, it’s really fun to look at. But if someone is giving of their spirit and they make you laugh and feel good, that’s a whole other level of beauty.”
- “Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.”
- “Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.”
- “I definitely don’t think that I’m hot doo-doo. I don’t.”
- “I don’t know anybody’s road who’s been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don’t know what life has in store for you.”
- “I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.”
- “I never act my characters – I am them.”
- “I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.”
- “I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.”
- “I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.”
- “I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.”
- “I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.”
- “I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.”
- “I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.”
- “I’m not after fame and success and fortune and power. It’s mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that’s the good stuff in life.”
- “If you’re going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.”
- “If you’re going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something.”
- “It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.”
- “Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.”
- “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
- “Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”
- “My whole life, I’ve wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It’s the most liberating thing in the world.”
- “Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.”
- “When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.”
- “When you’ve been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn’t have to act perfect all the time.”
- “You’ve just got to do the best that you can.”
- “I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex – But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask.”
- “I cry a lot. I’ll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.”
- “I try as hard as I can not to torture people.”
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