I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

Good stories take your imagination to anywhere

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

Show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.

Warden Baggett, thank you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.

Avoidance is a wonderful therapy

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.