Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.

I think family is so important.

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save it. What is wrong with me?

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

I'm a pescatarian - I don't even eat meat!

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

I don't want to die while I still have beautiful reasons to die for.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.

Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent