I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough'? But I proved them wrong.

I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.

Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing

I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'

Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.

My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.