Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.

I think everybody wants to be a rock star.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

Sometimes you just can't hear yourself. Maybe ears are too close to the mouth.

It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.

It is not the size of a seed, but the size of what rises from it.

I love belief it can move the pallet on a Ouija board or put a man into space. The problem that we have is the wrong beliefs we can't erase.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

My tattoo is a cross, a rose and a shark. A cross is a cross, a rose like love and a shark is a pretty tough animal.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

I came to believe in a power much higher than I

At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.

Life's not all beer and skittles

As Shakespeare said, there's nothin' cooler than droppin' the 'g's off of gerunds!

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.