What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

As we befriend our crush and get to know him better, make sure that you are honest and true all the time. Do not be someone you are not just to impress him.

Everything is a learning experience.

If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I'm on Two and a Half Men and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth.

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church.

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.