“The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.”

Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It’s everywhere. It’s all around us all the time.

It’s a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, ‘I get to play the First Lady.’ It’s just fun to say.

Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

My dad used to say, ‘Just be yourself and you’ll be fine,’ but it’s really, really true.

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

There’s a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.

I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you’re an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

If I’m feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that’s a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don’t want to take anybody else’s work with me.

That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we’re in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don’t want to drag anything in there that doesn’t need to be there.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.

Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

I don’t know anything about baseball.

Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything

How you do anything is how you do everything.

I’m not a big fan of just doing weights. Anything more physical is infinitely better.