If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees, " Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if theyve had a competitive relationship with their own father.

Not my will, but Yours be done.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes.