I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

What is wrong with you people?

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated.

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

Create history and write your own.

All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.

At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.