When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

I started boxing one day a week to experience aggression, which has been really interesting.

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.