What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.