I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'

It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.

I think it's important to love what you do and have a good time with it. I go to work every day and have a blast.

I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.

I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell.

I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.

I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life.

NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.

I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.

I'm a tomboy myself and have always been incredibly athletic.

Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

I don't believe in hero worship.

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?