I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

Whatever happens, never happens by itself.