I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.

I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.

Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

If you don't know what you want, " the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.

Happiness lies in the joy of achieve ment and the thrill of creative effort.

I might do cartoonish sexual jokes, but it's my way of saying what's going on in the world. How people are animals, really.

I would prefer you not to say, "That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read." That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person in the world? Well, alright.

The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.