One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring.

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.

Yeah when you're in the middle of filming this movie [Bad Santa 2] it doesn't matter what you say you can think of some sort of way to twist it into something dirty so we were laughing a lot.

Surely Tillie knew glitter on wrinkled cleavage was a sin.

Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.

Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

God crowns us. Most people crown their Christmas trees with either an angel or a star. God uses both.

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.