I've been very passionate about animals for as long as I can remember, and ever since I became an actress, I've always done my best to get involved with animal charities and such.

Don't take life so seriously. Have fun. Enjoy your time on this planet. Try new things, go on adventures, and appreciate every little thing because it may not be as little as you might think.

Love is being constantly supportive.

Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them.

Love is being understanding and compassionate.

Love is being accepting of all of their flaws.

I grew up on that stage. I learned almost everything I know there.

Things will go wrong or end up differently than you had imagined, and that's OK.

I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent.

I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head.

Don't take life so seriously. Have fun. Enjoy your time on this planet.

Trust is the strongest weapon.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

Judging people does not help them.