After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my Criminal Minds family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want.

I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.

Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.

When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.

If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

May is much sunshine through small leaves.

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.