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

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.

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.

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.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.

“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.