You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

Now I can tell you something dirty. I like men who have a foot fetish. I absolutely think it's the most charming thing. It's just so romantic.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life.

Maybe we can stay in denial together forever?' I suggest....'No, I mean, maybe there's a town called Denial, and we can literally move there and forget about college.

Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

I've been treated as less than human, as a thing, as a pawn. And just because I don't have a Bible or a microphone-just because I don't draw millions of people on TV-doesn't mean I'm not human.

I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.