"I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all."

"I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown."

"I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life."

"You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination."

"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."

"Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy."

"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?"

"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."