A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

I'm sort of coming of age into a different time of acting, and I feel kind of like a kid again. I used to think that I could climb anything, do anything. But I've just been like a skinny white girl my whole life.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

If you put the right things into the universe, the right things will come to you.

People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.