My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

Mommy. It's just the one thing you don't want to mess up.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Someone said to me not too long ago, "Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve", and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.

You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

I think that's what a partnership is - you take the positives from both people and incorporate them.