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

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.

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.

I would love to play a role that is a lead role that people appreciate and a lot of people get to see. I just don't want to have to fight for every role anymore.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.

On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light.

If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.

Take away the In God We Trust, tell me what the hell is wrong with us.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.