Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.

I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

I feel like a big thing is faith - to never lose my faith and to always stay true to who I am and to never be afraid to show who I am. I think the biggest thing is: Don't ever hide anything.

Things will come to you when the time is right and I say just go for it. If you love what you want to do, just keep on going.

You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

The best thing you can say about offshore investors is that they're tax cheats in their home countries.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

Save others, snatching them out of the fire.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.