My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

When you grow up, your heart dies.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.

The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.

I buy when other people are selling.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.

You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.

It's the sad fact of how race still works in our country. We find that over and over again.

Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.

A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?