Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?

Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.