I believe over the last six years now, I've been learning in between actual acting moments on the show.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.

Painting is a hobby for me.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.

Victory is forged in the heart.

When the voices of doubt start whispering, turn-up the volume of faith and listen to your heart.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.

What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives in corporations, they're liberal.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.