If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.
I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.
It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.
Every time you fail, you learn more.
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."
I just want to do what I feel is right in my heart.
It's okay to be ambitious, it's okay to be over-prepared.
I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.
The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a life of cruelty. That means trying to make sure I look people in the eye when I meet them. Sometimes you jump in a taxi, or maybe you only have two minutes with someone, and you never see them again. I try to always look them in the eye and have a real experience of what it is to communicate with someone.
No matter what, I'm going to ask for more.
I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.
If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.
I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.
We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.
Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.
My grandmother used to say, "Sometimes the loudest person in the room doesn't know what they're talking about." Or isn't secure enough in his or her own views to be able to listen to others.
Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women... And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film.
You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.
I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.
I've spent my life being embarrassed.
To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.
I try not to fake anything.
I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the film. Sometimes the characters are just there as a prop to further the man’s story. The great directors I’ve talked to, I’ve said listen, I don’t mind playing a woman that is a tiny part, but how does the story affect her? What can I play in the end that’s different from the beginning? Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense, because it’s just like being a prop.
I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.
I find that the monsters are usually the people that I have the most empathy for because they're the ones that are hurt the most. There's a reason why they're the monsters.
