All of the sudden people say, "She's got tits and legs and blond hair. Let's talk to her!" I've been paying dues for years in modeling. Not only that, it took a month and a half of Chuck Russell, The Mask's director, and Jim Carrey trying to get New Line to say O.K. on me. I didn't sleep; I had an ulcer. Of course, when people talk of paying their dues, they mean years of going to acting school and auditionin.

I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.

Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.

I read a quote the other day that said comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. And what happens is that you're saying that you're not good enough.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

I've never been a fluffy sort of woman.