I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!

Talking behind someones back does not make you better. It only demonstrates how much of a coward you are for not saying it in the persons face.

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.