After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.

It's so hard to fight against someone who is stuck in what they believe whether you agree with it or not.

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

God has always been the head of my life, even before I knew it.

Know your history. It can teach you who you are, where you have come from, and how to be a better person as a result.

I just love drama. I love the idea of exploring relationships, whatever they may be. That's fun for me.

I am a woman who stands up for what she believes.

I like what looks good on me and, as a result, I don't find myself drawn to one specific designer all the time.

My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet.

I would love to try my hand at directing and even producing in some kind of way. Something about that intrigues me, but for directing I could completely see myself trying.

I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.

Maybe it was me, " Grandma said."Sometimes they sneak out.Did I fart?

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.The girls of 1929.

She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible.

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.

Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.

Think you two puny Druids can hold this keep for a single night?

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.