At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

Believe. Believe in yourself. Believe in others. Believe there is positive in everything.

I really look forward to knowing that something is always possible.

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

The human heart is a dark forest

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

Where mystery begins religion ends.

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

Pressure's healthy. It becomes stressful when you can't handle that. I mean, if you don't want to become pressurized in this environment, then don't be a chef.

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.