“Auditioning is extremely bizarre.”

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.

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.

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

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 school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.

It’s easy to actually get the ink on the page

I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

The country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.