This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

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

Nothing we do makes us real. That which is real makes us do.

Because there’s one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.

Only internal bliss is perpetual, nothing else is created to last

In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

If you keep a clear vision for your future, it will pull you like a magnet through your toughest times.