I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.

One can't step into the river twice

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

Valuable people are undervalued.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind.

Patience to the spider

If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.