I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.

My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.

I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.

Mutual understanding is the main backbone of every happy relationship.

Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all.

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.

You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

The major way to conquer fear is to make a decision.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

Me and my dad used to play tag, he'd drive!

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.