I think I really see myself doing TV more than ever.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever.

Live life as an observer but not a spectator. Learn the rules, get in the game, break some rules. Live. Experience. There is no exhilaration to be achieved sitting on the bench.

You know you're in a good place when you no longer are interested in looking back. You prefer to enjoy the journey.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.