“I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store.”

“I like a deep sports massage - a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I'm getting in shape for a role.”

“Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.”

“For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew ...”

“In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.”

“Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.”

“I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.”

“I was tired of her getting away with being so young.”

“My sister is my little star, and I'm excited for her and proud of her. With her, I'm protective, but also I don't want to be that sister who's really pushy and thinks they know everything and makin...”

“Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.”

“People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.”

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.”