"Brooke doesn't apologize for herself. I love that about her! She's like: Look this is me. This is what I like. This is what I do. Take it or leave it... She's like any other woman who is not quite comfortable in her own skin, she goes home and cries when she is alone."

"Brooke is definitely confident shall we say, she is daring, she is a little wild. She does everything on the planet that I would have never done, in high school, I mean I read the scripts and I think: I can't do this! She's a role model of what not to do! She sets examples of what can really hurt you if you let it, if you take things too far."

"Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention."

"When I first got here, I was a little timid, but everybody was so welcoming. The cast and crew are really tight now. We try to make time to go out on weekends together."

"And I feel I filled my years at USC in both my education and extracurricular activities. I'd love to go back and graduate. I read continually and I write a lot - ideas for stories and things. I would love one day to write a book."

"I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place."

"Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person."

"I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt."

"I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. You know, at the time I was playing volleyball, and I just thought it was a major inconvenience. But I ended up loving it. I made a decision to follow through with it because I never enjoyed anything as much as being up onstage and being someone else. So I decided to pursue it, and voila!"

"I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor."

"I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that."

"To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there. The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well. So I believe that happiness is being able to wake up and just know that this is what you wanted, and not what somebody else wanted. And remember, a smile is contagious!"

"Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you."

"Sometimes I want to be very feminine and put together, and other days I'm happy to be in a slouchy pair of jeans and a baseball cap."

"We started Brooke the first season with big hair and big makeup and small clothing. And she's evolving and coming into her own more now."

"Photography has always been a big thing for me and has been a big part of my life."

"I loved school so much and I loved being educated and learning so much. I'm constantly still trying to continue that."

"I always had these visions of being a pediatric heart surgeon; that was my ambition as a kid."

"I'm a fiercely loyal person. I would do anything for my close friends and family. My closest girlfriends are basically the sisters I never had."

"It's interesting for me to watch people in my age range, who work in similar fields, and seeing all the news coverage of these actors and performers who don't turn up for work, or turn up late. It astounds me, because a major sense of ego is involved if someone can do something like that."

"I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on."

"I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing."

"I didn't grow up in Beverly Hills, I wasn't going to clubs at 17. I was still having sleepovers. I had a very normal childhood. And I'm lucky that I haven't had to do much growing up in the public eye."

"It's not difficult to have a relationship in this business if you're in the right relationship. When you match up with someone who is of substance and has their priorities in order, you see how easy and enjoyable life can be."

"You see people come out here under the guise of getting famous, not for the passion of the work. And they get swallowed up by the Hollywood machine. It's nauseating. We're producing more PR commodities than we are talented actors."

"It's hard to be in this business and not cater to that a little bit, but I try to get photographed on red carpets, not when I'm out getting coffee. I miss that old Hollywood mystery."

"You don't get to take any of it with you."