I play video games a lot... I love to read... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.

Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

It's your life, not your death, that defines you.

A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation.

Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else’s nightmare.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.