I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

I'd to do more stuff with less sarcasm.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

We have to raise the status of girls and women in every country.

When your mind is focused and made up you don't make excuses. You try. If you fail you try again.

Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things.

The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes

I just want to keep people entertained.

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.