I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop?

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

There can be no peace without unity.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

I hate to talk about myself.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

A woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.