The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

Do not let your light be dimmed by anybody who doesn't appreciate the dream that you're trying to pursue.

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

I'd love to play a full-out rocking chick.

When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin

He seemed to think that spanking solved problems instead of taking the time to talk about them.

Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Write what you care about.

What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.