There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart.

When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true.

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.