You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

Be the best you can be for yourself!

A situation in itself is not powerful

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.

If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section.

He who does not believe in hell is in the greatest danger of landing there.

I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.

Being is born of not being.

In love, we are best pleased when we please others.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.