My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, but because I just forget to pay my bills.

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life