I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.

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

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.

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

Balance in life is the key to everything.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, marketing your uniqueness, marketing what you stand for.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

And now for something completely different...

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.