“If everyone chose love, this world would be magnificent. Always choose love.”

As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that’s a life lesson I think many people don’t get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I’ve learned to carry this lesson with me.

If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.

Talking to someone, meditating, praying, or just plain crying it out helps. The most important thing after doing any of these things is to let them go. I focus on all of the many blessings surrounding me and all those I love, instead.

Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it’s the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It’s like saying, “I’m an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams – and I’m choosing to share them with you.”

Eating healthy and keeping hydrated does wonders; it centers my mood and helps me keep a sharp mind.

For me, being alove it is being close to nature, either by the beach or near the ocean. When I look around and see how small I am in comparison to all that surrounds me, it fuels me.

O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.

Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.

Every time ‘Lady Macbeth’ and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it’s amazing.

It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by way of the Chimney. (What did it mean? Soon we were all to learn what it meant.)

Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

I treat people based on who they really are, not the name. Everyone has to be respectful and be a human being. No one’s above… That’s how I carry it with anybody.

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.