It would be nice to not have to prove myself, and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love.

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.

It's a good idea to prioritize your life and not making drinking the top priority. I think there are aspects of it that definitely illuminate bad decisions and how they'll negatively affect you.

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling, when that happens.

The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.

People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

I would love to play a role that is a lead role that people appreciate and a lot of people get to see. I just don't want to have to fight for every role anymore.

Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

Individuals are told to reduce our "carbon footprint, " and we should. But how many years of riding a bike to work would it take me to offset one F-15 flying for an hour?

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.