The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.

I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love.

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.

It's a good idea to prioritize your life and not making drinking the top priority. I think there are aspects of it that definitely illuminate bad decisions and how they'll negatively affect you.

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling, when that happens.

It would be nice to not have to prove myself, and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

I would love to play a role that is a lead role that people appreciate and a lot of people get to see. I just don't want to have to fight for every role anymore.

There are times when the way has to pass through sufferings to cleanse ourselves from the burden of the past.

Your organization needs you to be the lead, not the lid. If you're not growing as a leader, you've become the lid

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.

I've got to make sure I'm keeping weight on.

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

It's a holy city for music.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

If you are giving back, you took too much.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.