I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

I'm not cruisin' this opportunity in time and space for you to like or dislike my 'get-down'

There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something and that's stressful.

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

Did they look like anyone we know? For example… a cross between Pippi Longstocking and the Wicked Witch of the West would obviously give us Marcie Millar

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'