I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.

My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, but because I just forget to pay my bills.

Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?" "Only if you had your hand stamped.

It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

I like involved projects.

Treating myself is more about just going out and having a great hike, or going on a long motorbike ride.