"You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself."

“At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.”

“As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.”

“Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.”

Source : "Interview with Lynn Shelton, Director of Humpday". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 08, 2009.

“When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.”

“Great joys, like griefs, are silent.”

Source : Shackerley Marmion (1875). “The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion with Prefatory Memoir: Introduction and Notes”, p.82, Edinburgh : W. Paterson

“There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.”

“(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.”

“You're still here," he whispered. "They couldn't drag me away.”