A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.

Adrenaline is the reason I do what I do.

There is something so rewarding about dancing. It's almost spiritual - you let loose, you feel free, you get endorphins from the exercise.

I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.

Friends are the best therapy.

I try to bring my mascara everywhere because I'm a blonde and you know blondes have really light eyelashes, you always wanna put more and more on 'til they look like spiders, that's just what I do.

'Grease' is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy.

I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted. I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

It's scary to take risks and it's scary to get out of your comfort zone, but it's also the most rewarding when you do.

When you dance on your own there is something so magical and so special.

Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.

You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.