Makeup is something that is meant to enhance your features, not to make you look like something you're not.

I have always had a deep connection with my faith, and I was fortunate to have been brought up in a Christian environment. My faith is a very important part of who I am.

I think it's important to be a generous actor.

I love going into the room for auditions, but hate doing self-tapes more than anything.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited...

Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.

'The Comeback' is my favorite TV show of all-time because it's just brill. It's Lisa Kudrow's show about what it's like to be an actor on a TV show. She's so amazing on it.

And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got a Barbie, and you got to hang out with friends. And I thought it was just the best thing ever.

Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.

I have a great life, amazing family and friends, so it's easy for people to be like, 'What have you got to be sad about?' But it's not that; it's a chemical imbalance in your brain that sometimes...

When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thirteen.' I just really liked movies that showed an extreme range in acting. That's what made me want to...

If you want people to remember you, make your presence felt.

I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really.

I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can't only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it's fun.

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

I started as a model in Mexico - I was traveling, but my base was in Mexico City. And then I studied acting for three years.

I think my lifestyle and home food has helped me lose that chubby look.

Nothing makes me laugh more than farting.

Disability in the Middle East is viewed through a different lens because you're in wartime countries where it's much more mainstream, so I was just never 'other'd.

What I really like about 'Red Band Society' is how real it is, and the experiences that they are going through are experiences that everyone is bound to go through at one point or another in their...

Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.

I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.

Yaar, television has become a very exhausting medium for actors now. It's like you are racing against time in the race for TRPs, which can be very saturating.

Pregnancy is treated like an illness in some sections of our society.

We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.

My sister, myself, and my cousins would put on shows for our parents and charge them to come and watch, apparently. That's what I'm told. My parents said I knew how to milk it.

I think therapy can also be a bit of a weird thing, because it's amazing, and I think it's so vital, and it's helped me in so many ways, but it also does uncover things that you probably would never...

My worst job would have to be waiting tables at a restaurant in N.Y. My boss was evil.

I guess whatever the director's energy is is kind of contagious on set, because, um, you know, it's a hierarchy, and we're all kind of looking to the director for guidance.