When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.

I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.

If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?

It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!

I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.

I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.

I'm surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.