It depends on the scripts and the character and just everybody involved, the other actors and directors. It's just a gut feeling when you find something, you're like, 'Yes, I want to sink my teeth into that.'

I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

I wanna be with you, if only for a night to be the one who's in your arms to hold you tight. I wanna be with you, there's nothing left to say.

Why do I, Mandy Moore, get a record deal?

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.

When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'