But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well.

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.

My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.

It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

He who walks with the Saviour, the light of the world, shall never walk in darkness.

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour

The tortured always remain tortured.

We be sticking pill up girl's booty, too!

If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.