One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

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 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

Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

Google never knew how successful key words would be.