You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

You express different energies at different times in your life.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

I love being outside and getting fresh air.

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.

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I've decided to take this unrequited love, and quietly put it away in a corner of my heart as a bittersweet page of my youth.

I actually gained 30 pounds [for the episode], and I haven't lost all of it yet so I haven't been like "I gained 30 pounds!" Because I don't know if people can tell the difference.

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.