“Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.”

I’ve been getting my makeup done professionally since I was 12, I’ve never found a brand that could create that glowing look and flawless finish we all want from beauty products with ingredients that were effective and safe. So I had to create it.

I’ve got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out.

Good actors never use the script unless it’s amazing writing. All the good actors I’ve worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

I can seriously spend five hours making one dinner.

I love acting because it’s this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what’s possible.

I didn’t really [seriously] go out with any guys until I was 18 and met my ex-fiancé, Michael Weatherly.

I’m comfortable looking sexy. I don’t push it with poses, although I like the ironic part of it. That’s what makes it fun.

A parent knows better than any book or “expert” what their kid really needs.

I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia.

I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.

I can’t tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that’s what I call a vacation.

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.

My approach to acting now is so different — I’m fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision — now, I don’t care.

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

When I was young, I loved black men.

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that’s beautiful to create something that is fake?

I’m not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it’s real.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God’s promises in every area of our lives.