The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.

In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.

When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

I work hard and support myself.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R's: regret, responsibility, and remedy.

When you make a deal with the Devil, it can be Hell.

If I can succeed in saving only a single soul I can be sure that my own will be saved.

Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. “But she wants her daddy.

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

We're in different categories. She [Venus Williams] does sports, I do more of the fashion side.