Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

What is wrong with you people?

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated.

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOONChapter 27 Page 214

Words are like the wind. They will blow away your own footsteps but they also will blow away the footsteps and thoughts of others. Use them wisely and with care.

...the end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.

We've reached an age that when construction workers stare at us it's because they figure we might be considering a remodeling job.

The best way to offset tension is with physical activity.

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours.

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion