When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create

But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.