As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

I think of Gisele Bundchen to get myself on the treadmill

We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.

Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end.

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.