Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.

The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.