As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

For you to be able to turn on the light in the darkness, you have to live in the light.

There's never peace in war....perhaps it exists in one's mind at the time.. however short-lived

I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.

I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow.

Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.

We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing.

If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.