“To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions.”

My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take the audience with me.

The most important thing to me is my work, and reaching people through my work.

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

It’s so important to me. It’s my passion.

I don’t really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I’m more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.

A bit of a crisis of faith, I suppose.

I want to touch people’s lives, and bring them along with me.

The worst reaction someone can have is, “eh.”

Nobody wants to watch perfect people.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don’t like

Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre.

And you hate her for a while – then you love her again.

I’d like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

I did some soul-searching, took a break and decided I was going to live my life only for me.

I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn’t sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me.

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.

There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.