I have to just go in and audition, like everyone else, and fight my way to the top.

I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love.

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.

It's a good idea to prioritize your life and not making drinking the top priority. I think there are aspects of it that definitely illuminate bad decisions and how they'll negatively affect you.

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling, when that happens.

The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.

It would be nice to not have to prove myself, and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

My life. My choice. Live life only once. So to hell with the world

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.