Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.
I can't put on a facade every time I go out.
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
It's very important for me to try to get to the people. I'm not shy. It's nice to give the fans a little extra, to let them inside.
Just stay present in the moment, and what will come will come.
Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves.
If I told a lie, then I got to come back and correct it years later. I hate that I have to be the person that touch on their life and be personal and be direct with certain situations, but man, I'm glad that it's me than them.
I don't try to hide who I am when I appear in public places, act, or attend interviews. If I do, it makes the gap even wider. I like it best when someone says I'm the same on television, on camera, or off camera. This makes it easier for me.
I like to show that I'm real.
I am not very good at putting on a front.
If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.
There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
I can't pretend that I'm happy or pretend to get emotional when I'm not.
It's not an act, it's just my way.
I think as long as you're authentic, people will relate to that.
It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.
I used to be cagey about my love life. I was cagey for four years. Az and I only decided to come out because we were pregnant. Otherwise, we would have kept it quiet. It really was a case of staying private. I am not one of those people who frivolously throws their private life out there.
You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.
It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.
I think that being open, in general, is really important. If you're not, you close yourself off to experiences.
I'm trying to be as real as I can and I'm being myself. I'm not gonna create an act.
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
