• “Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.”

• “I’ve always seen myself as one of those ’show people.’ My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.”

• “I’m not someone who’s generally kept the same hair color. I like to be able to change it. You know, if you can’t change your surroundings, change your hair color!”

• “I’m a creative person. I’ve always chosen people who are entertaining themselves.”

• “It’s hard for me to believe it’s been 10 years since that movie. I really was a virgin who couldn’t drive. I was living in an apartment in the Valley with my mom – and I remember starting to see these huge billboards of us all over town. It was amazing!” – About the 10th anniversary of Clueless

• “I consider myself a character actor. “

• “I don’t even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?”

• “I find this life so interesting.”

• “I’d love to be a man for a day, just to see what it’s like.”

• “If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.”

• “The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.”

• “Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.”

• “I can’t believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it’s really, really, gosh-darn neat.”

• “I don’t read the script a zillion times, I don’t like to analyse things and my mind can go there very easily.”

• “Home is where my mom is.”