Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

Then I read Little Women and of course like a lot of really young girls I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Every indication of wisdom taken from the effect is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom if you listen.