I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me.

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.