I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

I love all things Christmas.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

Dream like a child with complete faith and no limits. This is the only way the greatness within you can be awakened.

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

The hands of the clock are ever in the hands of God. It is arrogant to plan without planning for God.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

I don't take myself too seriously! That makes me happy.

Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

I don't believe in strong-arming people.