I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.

Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.

You can't trust the internet.

I think I've always been a fighter in a healthy way.

To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.

When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.

You change your life by changing your heart.

Image is powerful. But image is also superficial.

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.

True feelings never fade, we just learn to fill the spot.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.