I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that we get paid is just a bonus.

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.

I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.

I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc.

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because it was red.

The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

Silence hung between them, and Maddy's heartbeat picked up. She probably should have played it cool, but why bother? She wanted him.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.

Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

Children are unaccountable little creatures.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.