Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. Its not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.

I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.