When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

I love all things Christmas.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

I've never flown a kite.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

Fear is a survival tool not a handicap.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

If you stand, worship, and love God in the midst of lack and difficulty, you will never lose

I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.