And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that

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, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me.

When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

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

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it