It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.

In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.

When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.

The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

I work hard and support myself.

Criticizing is easy, performing is difficult.

Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true.

The greatest asset you could own, is an open heart.

I don’t believe in coincidence or fateBut I know one thing for sureYour face was meant to beBurned into the deepest reachesOf my blackest memories.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.

A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.