Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

Tormented by an unworldly hunger, yet not knowing how to satisfy it.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.