I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.

I just want to have fun.

I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.

You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things

I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.

Trying your best is bringing your best... that's the way to do it! Desire and passion is everything.

That intensity, that feeling of the battle, heat of the moment: personally, that's what I live for.

Nobody will tell me what I can or I cannot do.

I always take things step by step and match by match.

I wouldn't say I let myself down, just sometimes it doesn't go your way.

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you

Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.

I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.