Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

I never really cared about what I looked like.

Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle-clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.

I realize you cant please everyone.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

I have a very, very creative family.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.

I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on Dynasty or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere.

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

World peace is one project that we have to do together.