I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.

I feel like always wanting more... that's how you grow and learn. You can't just be satisfied with where you are. There's so much more to learn and consume.

To be honest with you, I'm more of a girl's girl. I'm much more comfortable being around other girls.

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

Judge a person not by how he treats you, but how he treats others. The former reflects what he wants you to think of him, the latter truly reflects who he is.

Talking about unpleasant things during a meal is not good for digestion, not good for health.

Appreciating what I have is my medicine.

Self-consciousness kills communication.

Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.