At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.

I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when youre a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.

On a personal level, you wear different masks.

I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it makes me smile; makes me smile so much.

I'm an actress, model, and singer.

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

[Director Richard Tanne] was inspired by their [Barack and Michelle Obama] flirtation, and their connection. That's not normal with politicians who are married - they usually look forced or awkward.

I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

Silence, like madness, is only comparative.

You don't know now and after and before who has watched you and who is watching you and who will continue doing that.

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.

I know that I'm the happiest of lovers.

I'm pretty sure there will be duck hunting in Heaven, and I can't wait.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

I am the drop that contains the ocean