"Seeing yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see the Divine Spirit in everyone you meet."

“Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.”

Source : Janice Galloway (2010). “The Trick Is To Keep Breathing”, p.48, Random House

“The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.”

“I'm not married. I hope to be someday so I can stop exercising.”

“Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.”

Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.”

“People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.”

“When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.”

“... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.”