Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

My mom always used to say, "You can't say I love you before you can say I." And I think that sort of makes sense.

I don't mind that if I ever star in movies, they'll likely be mine. That's okay, because my great role models - Woody Allen, even Tyler Perry, who is actually one of my role models, even if that seems kind of strange - they do that themselves. And it's great. They build empires, and they're known as having their own voice. I think it's 20 times more fun to act on a set where I feel the freedom to change the dialogue.

I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.

I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four.

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

I've always had that chip on my shoulder. I've just always been super hard on myself.