My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

Many men are broken in spirit because of bitterness.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

The light and the stars guide my way.

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

The corporatization of the press really has hurt the press.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.