I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

May you find courage in every circumstance.

May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

I'll forget about you long enough to forget why I need to

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.