I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer. However, if you can’t see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

You will have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, just remember to always handle yourself with grace and dignity.

Life's too short. I'm not!

Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.

I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy.

Oatmeal tastes so good on its own, you don't even need to add sugar.

Two scoops of crazy with a side of coo coo ca choo

It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

Happiness is a sacred heaven.

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.