Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

The less routine the more life.

I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.

When a family film is done well, there's a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.