I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

I have a tendency to talk extremely fast. ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited about things and I just want to spit them out.

I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.

As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-­workers, to the images in a magazine. How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others?

Everything that I own and use are in a carry-on suitcase.

You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.