I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

Now I can tell you something dirty. I like men who have a foot fetish. I absolutely think it's the most charming thing. It's just so romantic.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Get up, dress up, and show up.

When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.

I think there's an innocence to me.

Take the tone of the company you are in...

Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.