When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

Why won’t you help me?
You have to able to manage on your own.

Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

The white race will either inhabit planet earth in totality, or it will not survive at all. There will be no in between in our future.

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

I'm most excited to see how I've grown as a performer. After Dancing With the Stars I really was able to evolve in a lot of ways and I'm excited to put that to use on stage.

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.