"You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is."
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"Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm just too busy to think about politics." But here's the thing: You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you."
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"About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me."
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"Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself."
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"I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude."
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"For me, self-love is like: Am I sleeping enough? Eating well? Not: Am I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans? But: Am I eating well to be healthy and strong? And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good."
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"I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism."
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"Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students."
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"I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?"
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"I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera."
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"That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives."
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"Idea of holding each other’s hands at the Women’s March—it feels like we are being invited to do that every day. So many of us are feeling attacked, whether it’s a woman’s right to choose or headstones in a Jewish cemetery, immigrants being deported or banned. So many of us feel the need to protect and defend our democracy. And march toward the dream of being “We the people.” So that’s exciting, scary, and frustrating. We’re awake. We are awake more than ever before, and we have to stay awake."
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"When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process."
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"Sometimes, when we're feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love."
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"It is important to have friends and family around that I love and trust and who love and trust me."
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"I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character."
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"Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'"
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"I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race."
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"I think my first big heartbreak made me more compassionate about other people's heartaches. It enabled me to feel more for others when they are in moments of pain."
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"As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld."
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