I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

I spent most of my life from 24 to 31 at the office. I wasn't going to people's weddings I wasn't cultivating my marriage. I wasn't happy.

I now see the necessity of a beginning.

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it, and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.

I'm a half-demon princess. Sure. What's so hard to grasp about that?

I do think having a mother as a nurse who's a very kind of compass - , she's so compassionate and she really unfortunately would take her work home with her sometimes.