When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

Now I can tell you something dirty. I like men who have a foot fetish. I absolutely think it's the most charming thing. It's just so romantic.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Only when you work hard things work for you

Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him. Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

Every living word that gives life was once without form.

A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked.

I wish for all who look for Gold, Shall find one letter less, A world where trying always wins, And leaves the loser blessed.

Love is a kind of killing, Addy, " she says. "Don't you know that?

International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.