I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things

Either you like cats or you don't. Whole nations have been divided on what people thought of an animal that mates openly, walks in silence and keeps its own counsel.

I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

Canadian bacon isn't bacon. It's ham.

I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.

Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.

I'm just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It's not really that big of a deal.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.