Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.

I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have.'

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

When I've been playing my best golf, I feel like everything's so slow.

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'

I haven't got the energy to write now.

There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

If you aren’t begging for rest. Then you aren’t training your best

If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion.

If you get married you lose all your benefits. Thats insane We should give people bonuses for getting married and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

President-elect Donald Trump has a host of national security challenges to deal with as he assumes office, from the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the grinding Syrian civil war to the flexing of Russian muscles under President Vladimir Putin to how to deal with ISIS as the terrorist army retreats in Iraq.

Follow love and it will flee flee love and it will follow thee.