If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

I just like short hair on women, I think it's cool. And I have wanted to cut my hair for very many years, but being on contract with a television show for six years prevents you from doing that, and then being on contract with a cosmetic endorsement campaign prevents you from doing that again. So for eight years, I've had to have long, flowing locks. And I was just so sick and tired of long, flowing locks, so I chopped them.

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.