You will have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, just remember to always handle yourself with grace and dignity.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer. However, if you can’t see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

Life's too short. I'm not!

Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.

I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

Oatmeal tastes so good on its own, you don't even need to add sugar.

Two scoops of crazy with a side of coo coo ca choo

It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

I definitely think that being a model makes it more difficult to be taken seriously. And I understand. I don't take it seriously sometimes.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

I love when people become obsessed with Downton.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.