I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

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.

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

I have died in enough TV and films.

You're mine," "Not his. Mine. Only mine. Always mine.

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.