I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.

I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.

I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved and I'm able to love. I rock...I rock.

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

I know some of those 'Glee' people, and they can really sing! I wish we could hear them live, because I know some of them and they can really sing like nobody's business.

We actors can't say every line as if it has weight, but what we want to do is be true to the meaning of each line, whatever it is. Even the lines that are throwaway may come back later.

I think what's happening in Hollywood is a direct reflection of what's happening in the world right now.

Athletes and actors do really crazy things and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.

I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!

The world is a thick bookand I am a big bookworm.

The knowledge we gain from textbooks can never measure to the wisdom we gain through experience.

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.

I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.