Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

No matter what you look like or think you look like, you're special and loved and perfect just the way you are.

There's a confidence you find when you finally feel right in your body.

I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My house is always filled with laughter and fun!

Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.

I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

We as women need to empower each other.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

If you win the battle in the mind, you have the weapon of life.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.

Today, folks, should be all about love. Unless you're old.