And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.
Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.
For me, I believe that just seeing women be strong and tough is not answering the question of what a female hero looks like. Women have their own set of skills that are worth exploring and seeing on screen.
Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.
I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
I feel like it's too easy to just say, "We'll just change the name of this male character to a female, but have her do all the same things that a male does. " I don't believe in that. I think there's something else. I think there's more to women than that.
I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment. " I was 18. I was like, "This is it. " I didn't get it. And I was devastated.
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information
Dreams are the children of idled minds.
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
We are made for the same home and power that raised Christ from the dead.