Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.

I think that vampires are sexy. The idea of them being untouchable has been really exciting for people.

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.

Twitter and Facebook are such amazing networks for me to introduce myself to the world and for fans around the world to introduce themselves to me.

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Oh my god will you shut the front door already!

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.

I continue to explore poetry.