If you can't do what you want to do in your life, then it is difficult.

I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can't only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it's fun.

I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily mean they're a good partner for you to be with over the long term.

I don't get mad too much.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

My role is what I make it to be. That's just playing the right way, being a good teammate and hopefully everything else takes care of itself.

I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out...

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Technically, I direct, I'm a writer, and I do all these things, but I never went to school for them. It's just something you pick up; it's like its own art, basically.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

I want to exercise all my muscles. I want to do plays. I want to do everything.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could...

I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm...

I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.

When it comes to work ethics and business, I look up to Aziz Ansari. He's got everything together on his own terms. He does stand-up, comes out with books, and has his own show.

The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

I'll just do my own thing and just keep working hard to play hard.

'Better Than Home,' the song, is about getting out of your hiding place and having the courage to live as loud as possible. It is about feeling the life that has been given and has been waiting for...

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors....

Mankind's role is to fulfill his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy...

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

I am confident of doing well because I am enjoying my sport again.