'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

What is wrong with you people?

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated.

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

If you need all the answers to trust God, you are not really trusting God.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I've been to North Africa many times.

They say learning to love yourself, Is the first step, That you take when you want to be real...