I'd rather work to live than live to work.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

Careful, mother, or you could end up dangling in another's webs.

In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference... It has to move people.

Cam: She is so lovely when she sleeps. Daniel: Is that why you wanted her to sleep for all eternity?

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.