"You don't need someone else's approval to do what you want; just figure it out and do it, damn it!"
--Megan Mullally
"Actors are some of the most driven and courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one
year than most people do in a lifetime. Everyday actors face the financial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle...the disrespect of people who think they should get a 'real job' and their own fear that they'll never work again. Everyday they have to ignore the possibility that the vision to which they have dedicated their lives to is a pipe dream. With every passing year, many of them watch as other people their age achieve the predictable milestones of normal life-the car, the family, the house. But they stay true to their dream in spite of sacrifices. Why? Because actors are willing to give their entire lives to one moment-that line, that laugh, that gesture, or that interpretation that will stir the audiences soul. Actors are beings who have tasted life's nectar in the crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and touched anothers heart. In that instant, they were as close to magic, God, and perfection as anyone could ever be. And in their own hearts, they know that to dedicate oneself to that moment is worth a thousand lifetimes."
Likes & Dislikes...
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Likes...
Broadway.
Musical theater.
Singing.
Acting.
Dance.
Photography.
Being in a crowded city.
Celeb gossip magazines.
Good movies.
Musicals.
My friends.
NYC.
Poetry by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, W.B. Yeats, Diane Wakoski, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, etc.
Writing poetry/songs/or in a journal.
Having long nails, hehe.
Romantic stuff.
Slow dancing.
Being on stage :]
Talking.
Volleyball.
Stupid things that make me smile.
Making friends.
Meeting people.
Getting all dressed up.
Wearing heels.
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Dislikes...
Liars.
Overconfident people.
People that have NO confidence [and constantly need others to reassure them].
Phony/uncommited people.
Cleaning.
Math.
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Passionate Loves [for Kelsey]...
COLLEGE ALGEBRA 5th hour
Jerry
" I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos, I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness and all the rest of that crap, I want it all."
"A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself...He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience-or to fake-a sense of self esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer-because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut...There is no conflict between the standards of his mind and the desires of his body...Love is our response to our highest value-and can be nothing else."
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods...
There is a rapture on the lonely shore...
There is a society where noone intrudes...
By the deep sea and music in its roar...
I love not man the less, but Nature more...
From these our interviews, in which I steal...
From all I may be, or have been before.
To mingle with the Universe and feel...
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
-Byron
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these."
--Emily Dickinson
The one and only.
I've already met Susan Egan...but I wouldn't mind talking to her again!
SNL
"I've reached in darkness and come out with treasure.
I've laid down with love and I woke up with lies.
What's it all worth only the heart can measure.
It's not what's in the mirror...but what's left inside.
Sometimes it's a bitch...sometimes it's a breeze.
Sometimes love's blind...and sometimes it sees.
Sometimes it's roses...and, sometimes it's weeds.
Sometimes it's a bitch...sometimes...it's a breeze.
You gotta take it as it comes...
sometimes it don't come easy.
I've run through rainbows and castles of candy,
and I've cried a river of tears from the pain.
I tried to dance with what life had to hand me...
and if I could...I'd do it all over again."
--Bon Jovi
Two of the world's greatest singers:
" ' There's no time to lose,' I heard her say.
Catch your dreams before they slip away.
Dying all the time.
Lose your dreams and you could lose your mind
in life unkind. "
--The Rolling Stones
Music
- 80's
- Oldies
- Broadway Cast Recordings
- Bette Midler
- Barbra Streisand
- Bonnie Tyler
- Billy Joel
- Bryan Adams
- Carole King
- Cyndi Lauper
- Diana Ross
- Elton John
- Fleetwood Mac
- Grace Slick
- Gloria Estefan
- Idina Menzel
- Jefferson Airplane
- Jefferson Starship
- Judy Garland
- James Taylor
- Kristin Chenoweth
- Liza Minelli
- Madonna
- Rod Stewart
- Reba McEntire
- Stockard Channing
- Susan Egan
- Sutton Foster
- Stevie Nicks
- Shoshana Bean
- Victoria Clark
- Whitney Houston
Live theater is the best.
Broadway is timeless.
Funny Girl
"A girl oughta have a sense of humor,
that's one thing you really need for sure
when you're a funny girl."
Klute
The best improvised scene:
The Bridges of Madison County:
Actresses/Actors...
Actresses:
- Christine Baranski
- Candace Bergen
- Delta Burke
- Dixie Carter
- Stockard Channing
- Sally Field
- Jane Fonda
- Jodie Foster
- Peri Gilpin
- Rachel Griffiths
- Goldie Hawn
- Kate Hudson
- Felicity Huffman
- Helen Hunt
- Diane Keaton
- Shelley Long
- Shirley McLaine
- Bette Midler
- Megan Mullaly
- Olivia Newton-John
- Caroline Rhea
- Patricia Richardson
- Meryl Streep
- Barbra Streisand
- Susan Sullivan
- Lily Tomlin
- Shani Wallis
- Patricia Wettig
- Kate Winslet
- Reese Witherspoon
Actors:
- Alec Baldwin
- Jeff Bridges
- James Caan
- Jim Carey
- George Clooney
- Danny DeVito
- Mike Douglas
- Clint Eastwood
- Will Farrel
- Mel Gibson
- John Heard
- Dustin Hoffman
- Rob Lowe
- Steve Martin
- Liam Neeson
- Jack Nicolson
- Al Pacino
- Ron Rifkin
- Ray Romano
- William Shatner
- James Spader
- John Travolta
- Henry Winkler
- Bruce Willis
One goal of mine was to one day be directed by Sydney Pollack, who I think is one of the greatest directors. His movies were so iconic and they always depicted America/its citizens the way they really are...flawless yet beautiful. I can't believe he's dead :'(
Another goal of mine is to one day be directed by James Burrows, a comedic genius. He has directed Cheers, Frasier, Dharma & Greg, Friends, Will & Grace, etc. He is phenomenal.
"I look for the thing that I got from it from the beginning. Because that's the thing that intoxicates me. It's what you get when you come upon a phrase in a poem that just goes through you. How to describe that is really hard. It's some recognition of the truth of life in that phrase or in that image or in that encounter. You feel it in pivotal moments in your life: when someone is born, when you fall in love, when someone dies, when someone tells a great joke and you haven't laughed in a week and you just howl. The top flies off of your head. That's what you look for. And that's what happens in acting all the time, in moments. Surrounding that is a lot of police work, a lot of walking the beat and drudgery, but every once in a while, your adrenaline goes up. That's the addictive thing."
--Meryl Streep
"We are basically everybody...pretty much. And that’s what acting is asking you to do. You’re asked to go into these untapped, unexplored places within you that are part of you-you just don’t know it."
--Jane Fonda
"We are musical instruments: some person might be a violin; the other one is a clarinet; another is a saxophone. You can change your words, your hair, your makeup, but you can't change that energetic essence that you are."
--Goldie Hawn
"All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap."
--Helen Mirren
"Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back."
--Delta Burke
Movies
- 9 to 5
- A Series of Unfortunate Events
- The Accused
- Adptation
- Anna and the King
- Barefoot In The Park
- Beaches
- Bewitched
- Big Business
- Bird On a Wire
- The Bridges of Madison County
- The Clearing
- Cat Ballou
- The Cook, The Theif, His Wife, Her Lover
- Death Becomes Her
- Decieved
- Defending Your Life
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Evening
- The First Wives Club
- Flightplan
- For Pete's Sake
- For The Boys
- Foxes
- Funny Girl
- Fun With Dick and Jane
- Georgia Rule
- Gosford Park
- Grease
- Hello, Dolly!
- Houseboat
- The Hours
- Hussy
- Isn't She Great
- Legally Blonde
- Legally Blonde 2
- Little Man Tate
- Losing Chase
- Maverick
- Meet The Parents
- Meet The Fockers
- The Mirror Has Two Faces
- Monster-in-Law
- Music of the Heart
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Nell
- Nuts
- Oliver
- On Golden Pond
- Outrageous Fortune
- Overboard
- Out of Africa
- The Parent Trap
- The Passion of Ayn Rand
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Postcards From The Edge
- The Prince of Tides
- Private Benjamin
- The Queen
- Raising Helen
- Rent
- The Rose
- Ruthless People
- She's All That
- Silence of the Lambs
- The Stepford Wives (2004)
- Sunday in New York
- Taxi Driver
- Titanic
- That Old Feeling
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- What Women Want
- What's Up Doc
- The Way We Were
- You, Me, & Dupree
"I thought I’d put on a record and do an original Cambodian fertility dance!"
--Barefoot In The Park
"Maybe it’s just the whole damn world that’s like central casting...they got it all rigged before you ever show up."
--They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
"We are mysterious creatures, aren't we? We do what we need to and in the end it doesn't matter."
--Evening
"Maybe a fella hasn't got a soul of his own, just a piece of a big soul-the one big soul that belongs to everybody."
--The Grapes of Wrath
"Sometimes you have to look very hard at a person and remember he's doing the best he can."
--On Golden Pond
"The earth was made round so that we wouldn't see too far down the road."
--Adaptation
"There are images that lie within my heart. Images with power to recall the warmth of a summer's night, the stillness before storm...reminding me of the first time I ever saw him. When he stopped and asked directions to Rosemann bridge...a moment when there was nowhere else to go...except towards love."
--The Bridges of Madison County
"Can you exchange one life for another? A caterpillar turns into a butterfly. If a mindless insect can do it, why couldn't I? Was it any more unimaginable than the sinking of the Titanic?"
--Titanic
"The secrets of one night will reach out from the past and change the lives of everyone it touches."
--Evening
"There are too many ideas and too many people, and too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size."
--Adaptation
TV Shows
- Boston Legal
- Boy Meets World
- Brothers & Sisters
- Cheers
- Designing Women
- Desperate Housewives
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- The Facts of Life
- The Flying Nun
- Gidget
- Golden Girls
- Hannah Montana
- Inside The Actors Studio
- The OC
- Out of Practice
- Reba
- Roseanne
- Sex and the City
- Sister, Sister
- Strong Medicine
- The Suite Life of Zach and Cody
- Thirtysomething
- That's So Raven
- The View
- Will & Grace
"Embrace the truth...whatever it is. Never take your memories for granted...not even the painful ones. Memories are all we have that makes us who we are."
--Side Order of Life
Books
- Autobiographies
- All The King's Men
- Anthem
- The Brides of Madison County
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas
- The Notebook
- The Wedding
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Wicked
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever."
--The Notebook
"He saw a girl standing on top of a pile of machinery on a flatcar. She was looking off at the ravine, her head lifted, strands of disordered hair stirring in the wind. Her plain gray suit was like a thin coating of metal over a slender body against the spread of sun-flooded space and sky. Her posture had the lightness and unself-conscious precision of an arrogantly pure self-confidence. She was watching the work, her glance intent and purposeful, the glance of competence enjoying its own function. She looked as if this were her place, her moment and her world, she looked as if enjoyment were her natural state, her face was the living form of an active, living intelligence, a young girl's face with a woman's mouth, she seemed unaware of her body except as of a taut instrument ready to serve her purpose in any manner she wished."..
--Atlas Shrugged
"His eyes looked directly at her, and she felt something jump inside. The eyes, the voice, the face, the silver hair, the easy way he moved his body, old ways, disturbing ways, ways that draw you in. Ways that whisper to you in the final moment before sleep comes, when the barriers have fallen. Ways that rearrange the molecular space between male and female, regardless of species. The generations must roll, and the ways whisper only of that single requirement, nothing more. The power is infinite, the design supremely elegant. The ways are unswerving, their goal is clear. The ways are simple; we have made them seem complicated. Francesca sensed this without knowing she was sensing it, sensed it at the level of her cells. And there began the thing that would change her forever."
--The Bridges of Madison County
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire aflame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And some one called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands.
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
--W.B. Yeats "The Song of Wandering AEngus."
My father, mother, and sister.
Her. What a ham :) I'll make her proud one day!
The amazing Miss Megan Mullally
The Mavericks. With morals.
Best friend.
Best teacher.
This little lady.
Erin
My sister. My friend. She's there for me always and I can tell her anything. Erin is the only person that really knows me better than I know myself. I used to wonder why my friends got jealous of me for having her as a big sister...I used to say "No...she's mean!" Buuuut I "TAKE THAT BACK!" Hahah :). Erin and I used to be pretty distant because our interests are so very different but now all that has changed. I miss her when I don't see her and alot of times the only person I want to hang out with is her. For some reason, I think moving here to Arizona has brought us closer. Maybe it gave us something that we can both share and relate to...I don't really know. All I can say is that I'm so glad to finally have let my sister into my life. I never really treated her like a sister until we moved here and although I feel guilty about that, I know that I've made it up to her. She's the only person I'd ever SCREAM along to Sheryl Crow songs with in the car and I love her so much even though we fight. Love you, Erin!
Amy
Amy always listened to my stupid boy problems back home in Pennsylvania. She's a good friend to my sister and a friend to me too. I'd only eat junior bacon cheeseburgers while ducked in a car with her and Erin :]
Elle
Darrrrling! Elle, I absolutely adore everything about you. You are a true beauty with true talent and you are an amazing friend. I wouldn't be nearly as happy in this life if I hadn't met you. I think you already know how blessed I feel to have you as such a close friend. You are the only person who I can honestly tell EVERYTHING to. I mean that. I trust you so much and I know you won't ever judge me. Anytime I have a problem I always think "I need to talk to Elle!" You're not one of those people who will tell me something just to make me feel good...I know you will tell me the truth about something and I love you for that and so many more reasons. I may SAY that other people have been there for me through thick and thin...but you are the very defintion of that. You have helped me and been there for me COUNTLESS times and all the while you have helped me become the best person I can be. You're the most understanding person I have ever met and you have the most drive out of anyone I know and you are probably the most persistent girl I know. I love you so much and you will be a star one day. I truly believe that. I love you!
Ryan freaking Washington!
Ryan, I seriously love you so much. I hate that you moved! Who else can I listen to Sugarland with?! I love talking to you...I am so comfortable when I'm around you and I can be my total self and you never judge me. I will ALWAYS be here for you no matter what. I respect you so much. You have gone through A LOT of crap with your family and you have handled it all so admirably. You are a trouper and I give you props for that. I wish I still had you around here...so that I could bug you when I want to go to Chili's and vent :) Nonetheless, though, we are TOTALLY going to be roomies in NYC, no questions asked. What's better than Broadway shows, Rob Lowe, Sugarland, and me/you? NOTHING. :D I love you a ton and am so glad we still keep in touch!
SJane
Slugger, I love you so much! We've only known eachother for 2 years but it seems like so much longer. You are always there for me and you always listen to me when I need someone to talk to. Even though I'm so far away...we've kept in touch and are as strong of friends now as we were back then. I've known you for a shorter amount of time than my St. Louise friends and you've been a better friend to me than some of them. I can't thank you enough for always being there for me and for always supporting me and making me feel like I can do anything. I love you!
Schliz
Seriously, what to say? There's far too much to say about you. Liz, you know how much I adore you. You are my best friend. You have been such a loyal friend to me and I only hope I'm as good of a friend to you as you are to me. It's been...what? Almost 6 years since we've met? Each year our friendship gets even stronger. God can put as many miles as he wants between us and we would still be friends. We've laughed, we've cried, we've fought, we've gotten separated...we've been through everything. There's nothing we can't handle, girl! I love you so much and I miss you.
Markus [tabernacle] Maes! Lol...
Ahhh! Howwww to describe you? Lol, Markus...you know I love ya, man! It's sort of shocking to think that we've only known each other for about a half year because it feels like I've known you for so long. I used to feel really uncomfortable around guys because I always had this feeling that I sort of "had" to be "attracted" to them...but with you it's a completely different story. I'm 100% comfortable around you and I know that I can tell you anything and trust you with anything. We have this connection through acting and we both understand each other and I love that. I also love being able to relate to you! Meeting you was an uplifting experience for me...really, it was, and I could say that it's a shame that we didn't start talking sooner...but that would be a lie. It doesn't matter when or how we started talking...the only thing that matters is that we did because you are one of the greatest friends/people I've ever met. It's sort of funny how we went from NEVER talking to talking everyday. You never fail to cheer me up and make me smile and at the same time you never fail to be there when I need someone to talk to. Thank you so much for being such an amazing friend to me! Let's hang out soon, k? Love ya!
Brittany
Brittany, I love you! I think it's funny how when we first met we hardly talked at all...and now that we've known each other we talk all the time. There's just something about us that connects...we can be totally honest with each other and I adore that! We can be crazy sometimes then serious at other times. Baconators are officially OUR thing...along with us yelling "HAAAAAAAA!" then slapping each other's knee's :) You are one of the most genuine and beautiful friends that I've ever had the priviledge of knowing. I love you so much and I'm so glad that you live right around the corner. I can go to you for anything and I appreciate/love/cherish that. We have such a good friendship...I know it will last for such a long time! You always let me talk to you and I know that any secret I tell you will not be told to anyone else. You always make time for me despite the fact that you work 24/7 and STILL manage to see Emilio! No matter what you always listen to me and you always help me out. You're the best and I love you so freakin' much! Friends like you don't come often. People search all their lives for a friend like you and never find them. I love you!
Hannah Rae
Oh my god Hannah, you can't even begin to imagine how much I already miss you. I told myself I wouldn't cry when I said goodbye to you...but of course I ended up crying! You really mean alot to me. For some reason...ever since the day that I met you I've felt comfortable around you. I've never had to put on an act and hide any part of myself because you have always loved me for me. And I feel the same about you. I've been able to open up to you and tell you things because I trust you so much and you always listen to me no matter what. You are a true friend and nobody could ever take your place. You've encouraged me so much with my acting and you've made me a stronger person by setting an awesome example. I love you and the distance between us will never change that! :)
Elizabeth Ruth [My Billygoat] Bearg
Elizabeth, you are amazing. I'm SO happy that I met you because if I didn't my life would seriously be so boring, lol. We both like the same crazy/weird stuff and we have so much fun together. I swear I'm going to bruise a kidney or something from laughing so hard while with you. You're always there for me and I'm always here for you so that makes it even better :) Anytime I have a problem with my family and I feel like I'm going to burst out crying you're always there to make me smile and cheer me up. Being around you makes me happy and I can always be my true self around you no matter what. Not only that, one day we will find Rob Lowe and Patricia Wettig. "What the world needs now..." Haha.
Emily [I push her on the ground] Zele
KAU!! Hahaha. I'm really glad I met you. You are unlike anybody else I know. You have no clue, but I think you are probably one of the strongest girls I have ever met. You are faced with so many problems day to day due to your family..mostly..and somehow you get through it and put on a good face for the rest of us. You're always smiling and always laughing and that makes my day 10 times better. You make me smile everyday and I love you for that and so much more!
Em
Doll, I love you so, so much. Hahaha looking at your picture cracks me up. When I think of all the time we spent together before I moved, I remember what amazing times we had. You never ever fail to make me laugh. "Baby you...you've done it!" Haha curse that line, man! Remember when my Playstation fell into my cats water bowl and it was still living and how we laughed about it for sooo long? HAHA everytime I hear your name I think of that. I also think of you know who sneezing in Reading class with the hugest snot EVER on her hand...hahaha. Anyways, we got really close those last two years before I moved and I wouldn't trade our time together for anything.
Megs
My Schmeggy! Oh man...girl, I love love love you! Megs, you are so unique, amazing and fun. I love how we keep in touch even though I'm so far. Your cards cheer me up so much because even though other people back home have totally forgotten about me...I know you haven't. And I know you still care...and I still care about you, so so much. You me and Michelle will be reunited one day, I promise. It's going to be like the First Wives Club. I think of us everytime I see that. I'll be the washed up actress, hahah. You'll be the funny smiley one with a good life and Michelle will be the loving mom, lol. Megs, you are the person who taught me to smile. You have such an optimistic attitude unlike anybody I've ever met and you've taught me to be a better person by the way you act. I love you.
Chelle...AKA LaVinia!
La La LaVinia!! Hahah. Michelle...that's gonna be us one day! You're going to be all settled with a husband and kids...and a banana hammock...hahaha...and I'm going to be the crazy rockin washed up actress, lol. You make me laugh so much. We've been friends since 3rd freakin grade...isn't that crazy? We've been through so much together. And even though our little plan of you playing BPHS volleyball and me being in the BPHS musicals didn't work out...we'll make up for it one day! We are going to be friends forever, I know we are. I have the best times with you and you are such a genuine and good person. Chelle, you have always made me feel like I can do anything I set my mind to. You make me feel like I'm talented and unique. You've supported me in shows, in life, and in any situation someone can imagine. I love you so much.
Shan
Shan! Baby, I love you! I think we've been through the most out of anybody...lol. Since 4th grade we've fought, cried, laughed...all that stuff that friends do and we've gotten through every bit of it. You are amazing and you will always be my friend. I am so proud of the lady you've become. And I'm proud to call you my friend. No one should ever underestimate you because you're short and skinny...cause you could kick their ass anyday :) I love you so much and although I wish you the best in life, I know you don't need it because you're doing just fine.
Kell
Kell! I just want to start off by saying thank you for keeping in touch with me and being patient with me. I know I don't always contact you, but I try. We're both so freakin' busy...it's crazy! No matter what, I still love you so much! You've been a better friend to me than some people I knew in St. Louise all the years I went there...and all the while I met you when you had one year left. We got to know eachother so well that year and I'm so thankful for that. I have that picture of us from my 4th performance of Oliver in my room still and everytime I look at it, it makes me miss you even more! Keep up the music, girl. The world needs more people like you.
Annie
Okay so basically...Annie...you and I are the DEFINITION of best friends. We have been through EVERYTHING together. Like, every single thing you can imagine. And we pulled through it together. You make me laugh so much and you have been such a good friend to me over the years. I can't even write down all our jokes because it would fill the whole friggin page. The world has put so much distance between us and still we've overcome so many obstacles. That's friendship. I love you.
Alyssa
CHUMP! You're like the first person I actually became friends with here in Arizona. You made my first year here a memorable one. Thank you for that. You are a happy person and being around you makes me happy as well. You really are such a good and loyal friend and I thank you for always being there for me. You have a heart of gold...such a good heart...and you are one of a kind. We've survived English 1 & 2 Honors together...let's see if we can do it again next year! I love you!
Zach
Zachhhh, I frickin love you, buddy! Haha, I seriously think I'm the female version of you--we're too alike, lol. I always have tons of fun with you because we make each other laugh with our lame ass sense of humor--lol.
Sashhhh!
Girl, you know how much I love you! Hahaha thinking about you cracks me up because we're allllwayys laughing. I love being around you because when I am I can completely be myself. Your confidence in yourself is so awesome and when I'm with you, you give that to me. You make me not care about how much I weigh or how I look because I'm too busy laughing my ass off and having fun :) We've been friends for 4 years now...we're going to be friends for a looong time. I lurrrrve you! :)
Karen
You really are going to be the future editor-in-cheif of Vogue, my dear! I love you! I love talking to you because we get along so well and always have something to talk about! You like the same weird stuff I do...which is probably bad...because it means that when we're together we'd be two frickin weirdos, lol. I'm so glad that I met you and I can just tell that we'll be friends for a long time. I love you!
All of my STL friends
-Far away, but never apart.
Friends forever in spirit, mind, and heart.-
You all changed me in ways I never thought possible. I don't think any class was as close as ours. Remember how teachers told us we were the worst class they've had? Then by our 8th grade year they all said there was no other class quite as good as us? Haha :) I've spent some of the best (and worst) times at St. Louise. Thinking back, I only have good memories...good memories that completely overrule the bad ones. I still get teary eyed thinking of you guys and how much you all have probably changed and grown but no matter what...I will always be thankful for the beautiful memories you all have instilled within my heart. I love you guys <3
-Forever together, having fun being alive,
always in love with the class of '05-
Lora
Best dance teacher ever :) Lora, you are the MOST optimistic person ever and you make me smile because you're always so happy. I love you!
Susan Egan is the nicest, warmest, and most caring bway star evahhh! :) The perfect example of what a girl should be. She is so compassionate, it's unbelievable. I have looked up to this woman since I was 9 and because of her I found something that I adore...theater. She is so talented yet completely modest. Beautiful voice, beautiful personality, beautiful attitude. I WILL meet her one day!
I admire Stevie Nicks so much not only for her amazing ability to write/sing songs, but also for not getting involved in the politics of this war, and spending most of her time with the injured soldiers returning from Iraq...that's just amazing and I love her so much for that and everything she's done. There's just something about her music...the way she says a certain line or word...the passion she puts into performing...it's all so captivating and inspiring. I don't think any singer/songwriter out there can compare to her or her unique style. She puts so much of herself into her music. She takes risks and puts herself out on the line everyday as an individual. She's magical, she's passionate, she's deep...she's real.
Miss Mary Louise Streep
Megan Mullally is hands down the funniest woman of this generation. She has such a great sense of humor and is so genuinely original and caring. There's nothing pretentious or artificial about her. I admire her acting style and range so much...she's so creative and I love that about her. I respect her so much because she is always herself and settles for nothing less. She is absolutely beautiful and I can only hope that I am as funny, gorgeous, talented, and authentic like she is. She is an AMAZING actress with an array of talents and she can sing flawlessly.
Helen Mirren This woman is 62 and still extremely gorgeous. I have always admired Helen's ability to be completely humble yet extremely sexy. She does everything with a sense of confidence and feminine eroticism. Personally, I admire that. What woman DOESN'T want to be like that? Any woman can relate to her because she always plays characters with great flaws and at the same time-great power. I absolutely LOVE her candor and the way she carries herself. I look up to her so much for that and furthermore for her acting abilities :) Her appeal is due to a combination of different things-ageless beauty, inordinate intelligence, brilliant talent, and a certain indefinable quality that you can't describe-there's just something about her. She's the queen...'Nuff said!
I absolutely adore Melissa Peterman as an actress/person. If you watch her on Reba...she's so funny and does the craziest things. She's able to do that because she's confident in herself. She is so, so confident in herself but at the same time not petty at all. Watching her makes me feel confident too. In acting and in life she has taught me not to care what I look like, how much I weigh, or if my "makeup is perfect." She's taught me to care about whats real and whats special and she's taught me to respect others no matter what way, shape, or form they come in.
Barbra Joan Streisand is the shitttt :) I love her for obvious reasons! Butttt...there is no other singer out there as muli-talented or naturally gifted as she. She is the only singer with 100% control of her voice (which is the most beautiful everrrr) If I could EVER sing like her, I'd be the happiest girl alive :)
Patricia Wettig Dude this woman is GORGEOUS.
Delta Burke Delta is such a great actress, and off-screen she is such an amazing and warm person. She's so funny and sweet and when you see her you immediately want to be her friend because she's just so likable! She's such an inspiration and I love her!
It's Reba...need I say more?
Jodie Foster is such a great actress with alot of class. She's simpathetic, cute, AND talented.
Goldie Hawn is an amazing actress and person. She's so cute, genuine and entertaining.
Bette Midler. She has so much compassion, really cares about the environment, and is just, in a nutshell...an amazing person. I would not be who I am today if it weren't for her. She's taught me everything I know about being outgoing and having confidence. Seeing her live literally changed my life. She gave me that extra push I needed and got me into performing. She touches peoples hearts and makes them happy in such a way to the point where she made me want to do it as well. I owe everything I am to her.