Actress

I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.

I want to be doing something that I love and actually being able to feed myself by doing it.

In a healthy relationship, there is stability and security.

I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.

I just hope that people, women specifically, embrace that side of themselves that maybe is a little nuts or that society tells us is crazy.

Just to be able to make money doing what you love - you can't ask for anything more.

I don't mind the term 'feminist.'

I surround myself with bizarre people. They're more fun to write about.

I've always gravitated toward men who sort of kind of eclipsed me in some way. And I think that it's because I have this need to be better.

Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.

Discipline tops my list of most-hated things, followed closely by portobello mushrooms.

It was hard to write about my dad for the first book because I know how sensitive he is. I knew he wasn't going to take it as well as my mom, who can kind of roll with the punches and is used to having me tell her everything she has done wrong as a parent.

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.

On Twitter, people just want to hear a joke. They don't really want to know about your life.

Chelsea Handler is a good friend of mine, and I always was inspired by the fact that she was taking her life and turning it into these ridiculous, raunchy memoirs. She really has a talent, and she's a great writer. I was inspired by her trajectory.

I don't think that crazy should have a negative connotation - it just means that you're fun. I think that crazy is just a term that boring people use to describe fun people.

At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.

The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic - like, every German author, and then I have a couple of books by this ex-boyfriend of mine there. I just want to make sure that he's not too much better than I am!

I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood.

I don't want to read about the fabricated version of someone's life. I want to know what haunts you, what are you ashamed of, what embarrasses you, what do you wish was different?