I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.

Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.

Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

Whenever my water breaks it'll be like a fire hydrant!

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

Silence is often advantageous.

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.