I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it

Some things have to be believed to be seen

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Kindness is the master key which opens the gates of inner bliss.

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

Get your life. Because while you are neglecting yourself for whatever cause, that is exactly what everyone else is doing -- children, spouse, co-workers, etc.

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.

In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.