To be honest with you, I'm more of a girl's girl. I'm much more comfortable being around other girls.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.

I feel like always wanting more... that's how you grow and learn. You can't just be satisfied with where you are. There's so much more to learn and consume.

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.

Judge a person not by how he treats you, but how he treats others. The former reflects what he wants you to think of him, the latter truly reflects who he is.

Talking about unpleasant things during a meal is not good for digestion, not good for health.

Appreciating what I have is my medicine.

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Aren’t there different electrical outlets here? And what about money? And isn’t it-” “Relax, Tess, ” Taylor told me. “I have everything covered.

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.

I think even when I was little there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.