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.

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 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

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 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 reason for the absence of success in your life is not due to the lack of money, but to not having enough knowledge of the principles of success

What happens when you combine your passion, strength and value? This is the process of creating true art.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Everyone should ride the bus so that I can drive.

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.