I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

The world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we.

Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are”. “the hidden man of the heart

You are the only person who can make you happy and whole. You do not have another half out there waiting to be discovered.

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things.

John Kerry has apologized for saying those who do not study hard and do their homework will get stuck in Iraq. Now, those that do not campaign well and are boring will end up stuck in the Senate.

I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.

One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when I listened to fairy stories and imagined what they looked like and what those worlds were like.

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.