You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

I've always been a private person and I've always valued my private life.

I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people.