A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.

Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to mainta….

I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period..

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad..

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong..

I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, ste….

I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding sk….

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries ….

I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that.

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends..

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian..

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress..

Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody w….

People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something..

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doin….

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, a….

I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it.