I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

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

Train your subconscious to be positive by using the heart intelligence.

Thoughts -- just mere thoughts -- are as powerful as electric batteries -- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind.

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

David Haye is too light. Simply too light. He's not a real heavyweight.