Dieting is becoming easier and easier for me because I'm finding out things that I love.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
With 'Nobody Knows,' I consciously set out to make a fiction film, which is a different approach from 'Distance,' but I still applied a lot of the things I learned from making 'Distance': for example, how to use the camera in relation to the children and how to create the right atmosphere on set.
I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock club, it'll be Skid Row, if I'm in a mall it's the 'Gilmore Girls.'
I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.
I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.
When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
When things get heated, you are pulled in different directions, and you've to stand firm.
I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, 'This is what I'll do next.' I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.
The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.
That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.
Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.
I would say one of the most romantic things I've done is I've taken a girlfriend back to her hometown when she hadn't been back for years. It was in Puerto Rico, and we stayed there for about a week and a half. She showed me the different places she grew up around.
As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.
What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
