I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.

Painting is a hobby for me.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

I could fall in love with a supernatural creature because I think it's hot having super powers and being a little bit of a badass.

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

There's no such thing as a bad day when you have a doorknob on the inside of the door.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.