I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

I think everybody wants to be a rock star.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

Sometimes you just can't hear yourself. Maybe ears are too close to the mouth.

It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

Fear is a fickle friend who will loyally stand by your side as long as you allow it to diminish you.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

A lot of the clothes out are very adult-driven and it would be cool if they were a little bit more fun and trendy. Clothes should be fun.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.