Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. You know, everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee.What kind of pencil shall I use?2B or not 2B?

When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!

He brought his forehead against mine and we breathed the same air, slowly to try and find our composure. But it was impossible for me as long as he’s so close to me. “You’re ruining me.�

Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today."

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

Life is a never ending miracle unfolding in every moment, and if we turn our attention to that silent presence in our heart, we can participate in that miracle.

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.

I think that just talking about what guys shouldn’t do, we got to also make sure that you can do your part to do whatever you can do to make, to try to make sure it doesn’t happen.

Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.