It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you'll never get any sleep with a redhead!

I go camping with my boyfriend having nothing other than ourselves and the birds to talk with is most relaxing.

Hiking is the best workout You can hike for three hours and not even realize youre working out. And hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.

Caterham realises corporate America and the American consumer market... is the largest consumer market in the world and it is something that needs to be part of Formula One.

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

I hope that I'll be able to have kids with a mate. But I don't know if that's in the plan.

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation.

Family life contributes immensely to an individuals happiness. Only in a happy homelife can complete contentment be found.

You know youre big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life.

You need a dragon hidden inside you. When you need,you let the dragon out

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.