Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.
A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.
I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.
I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was knowing how to survive in the wild and knowing how to heal themselves from the plants that grew around them.
I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L. A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I'm in love with it and it's home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place.
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded.
All direction is but re-direction; it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss.
Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.
It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.
The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.