In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're too ashamed. It’s a really screwed up world, but its not your fault, and what happened to you, it doesn't make you the monster.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~

A guy at ABC told me to change my name and get a nose job. I said 'You get a nose job.'

I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.