Quotes

When I was younger, it was really difficult for me to get acting jobs, because you're a kid and you don't fit in the typical family.

There is so much about modeling that I don't like! What I hate? It makes you so image conscious all the time. I like to be healthy and stay fit. I am constantly thinking that I have to weigh this much, which is always on my mind, regarding working out and watching what I eat.

[on modeling] What I do love is the traveling...and getting paid for it! I like being in front of a camera...It's an outlet. It's fun! If you look through my photo album, they are all modeling poses. My mom was a young mom, so she took tons of pictures of me.

[on combining her interest in both public cuisine and her acting career] I love having a place where people can meet and fall in love, or have a drink with their best friend, a place where artists come and perform their art - whatever that may be. I love knowing that a million stories I would love to watch happen every day in my place. And the film industry is and has always been the place that I belong. Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.