I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.

I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.

If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?

It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!

I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.

I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.

I'm surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart.

It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.