"I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists."

“Make up stories until you find one you can live with.”

Source : Lidia Yuknavitch (2011). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.194, Hawthorne Books

“You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.”

“As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.”

“I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“In your flaws are hidden your strength. Your perfect imperfection will lead you to change.”

“Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!”

“The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize. That's why I think personal stories matter so much. That's someone's mom. That's someone's daughter. That's someone's son.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Morley Baer, James Karman (2001). “Stones of the Sur”, p.20, Stanford University Press