The worst thing I ever did is dance on the table.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

Believe. Believe in yourself. Believe in others. Believe there is positive in everything.

I really look forward to knowing that something is always possible.

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end

A meal was no more than a fragile defense against the inevitability of the next meal. Food itself could never answer the question of food

Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!

Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and on her face the fresh beauty of morning.

In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel.

Relationships are never chance events.

Take charge of your environment.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.