Actress Quotes

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, who I had grown up with, which showed me some moves, but it was never a full on match. When I went to competitions, there were other girls, so I always wrestled girls.

There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.

I'll say this, I'm no stranger to working with a foreign cast, foreign directors, that sort of thing. I love it, because I think that when you have people from different countries, it sort of brings everyone together, it's more of a worldly film.