I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.

I think family is so important.

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save it. What is wrong with me?

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

I'm a pescatarian - I don't even eat meat!

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid, gather a child to its mother.

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact.

If you don't have a hernia yet then you're not pulling your own weight!

I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

Folks who go through the tabloids ought to have to be lied to.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

[Chris Evans] is doing an amazing job with "Captain America." I really enjoy those films as well so that's kind of pretty much where that was.