I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

I'm just grateful that my body is healthy. I want to be on this planet for a long time, so I try to eat things that make me feel good and make me strong. But I also love food and I love life: Some days having that extra bowl of pasta and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup means more to me than being thin.

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

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.

Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today; I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here.