Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

I feel like a big thing is faith - to never lose my faith and to always stay true to who I am and to never be afraid to show who I am. I think the biggest thing is: Don't ever hide anything.

Things will come to you when the time is right and I say just go for it. If you love what you want to do, just keep on going.

You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.

Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen

If life is a dream, better you dread the waking!

When people begin to understand that whatever they think and feel happens, then the psychic phenomena begin to rise, which is what's happening now.

God takes attendance every day.

The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.

I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.