I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.

I love pain. Love pain.

Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?

it's never been a plan to have this or that. It's just where I am in my life, at that time, and where my path is going to go.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

Start each day as a great adventure.

Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

I wasn't sure how I'd feel about breastfeeding, but quickly realized its brilliance.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.