"Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule."

"I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age."

"I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy."

"In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience."

"In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up."

"The night has a thousand eyes,  And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun."

"Wisdom principle 39 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 90."

"Wisdom principle 44 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 55."