“If I’ve learned anything, it’s really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties.”

Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be.

The difficulty for me is that I’m interested in so many different things.

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women’s movement for women.

I’m a multidimensional person and that’s the freedom of fashion: that you’re able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

It’s not the absence of fear. It’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.

Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like, I promise.

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

As a child I grew up with a school curriculum that totally glossed over British colonialism and British slavery.

Together we can spread our message and support strong people of all genders.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Rape is not just a physical, violent act perpetrated against one victim, it is an assault on humanity.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I’ll never please everyone.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.

You don’t have to know everything or figure out everything. Be comfortable in not knowing all the answers.

I remember when I came out of an exam thinking I had done well and then I had a clue that maybe one answer was wrong, I remembered that I rather stop knowing, stop thinking about it, appreciating life instead.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

People are always asking what’s the secret of my success, and the answer is easy – at least for me. You have to have a strong inner drive.

An artist’s job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It’s not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.