I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.

Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.

You can't trust the internet.

I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.

I think I've always been a fighter in a healthy way.

The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry.

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.

It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling.

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

I got married really fast and really young.

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.