I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

I like to do a lot of cardio.

The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.

I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

I love pink, it's so girly!

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

Forever is composed of nows.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

There's no shortage of material in life.

...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.