You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

I'd to do more stuff with less sarcasm.

Without love life will be a flower garden without flowers.

You are what you read.

Anticipation tingled in my stomach: the kind of tingle that at first you don’t know if it’s a good tingle or a bad tingle – just a tingle.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.

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.

The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...

The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.