Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming.

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.

I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent.

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

Microcredit is about giving hope.

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.

I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.

Point shoes are torture devices.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.