All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough.'

If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward.

We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set.

I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.

You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)

...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...

Love me with open arms and I will love you with Open HEART

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial.