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“I was the teacher’s favorite, but never the kids’ favorite.”
“I was 11, and I was going to a birthday party. I developed at a very young age, and I wasn’t comfortable with it. I would wear baggy clothes. And my mom said: ‘You’re not going until you put on a skirt! Celebrate your body!”
"[My mum] always taught us there's no difference between your hand and your boob. They're body parts and if you have it, flaunt it. You're not going to be flaunting it when you're seventy-five."
"I’m so happy I grew up there [in Euless]. It sounds corny, but there’s something about the South – the hospitality, the charm."
"I realized early on that it was important to have those values – a morality and ethics that come with being Southern girl. The way you treat people – little things, the niceties like hellos, like courtesy. They mean something."
"I'm kind of a mutt: My dad's Persian, my mother is Spanish, and I was born in Texas. Growing up, all I wanted to be was white because all my friends had blond hair and blue eyes. Then I came to L.A. and realized, Oh, maybe it's good to be different."
"I'm not one to be messed with. I can be bad when it needs to happen."
"When you walk down the street in Texas, you make eye contact with people and nod at them. In L.A. nobody did, and it really surprised me. You can walk right past somebody and pretend they aren’t there. I would say ‘hello’ to everybody. People looked at me like I was insane."
"I was maybe too naive to even think, 'What if this doesn't work?' But I think my 'Why can't I do this, too?' attitude worked to my advantage. I just didn't think that any of the deception and scandals of Hollywood would ever touch me."
"Going to the moon made more sense than being an actress on a TV show. It wasn’t a reality."
"At one point, I was walking out of my hotel and people were freaking out. You would figure America Ferrera or somebody famous was behind me. I turned around and there was nobody there." [after being on The Sopranos]
“I think controversy is good. It makes people think. I go to work every day and it’s like I stand up for the rights of every human being in the world. There’s lots of satisfaction that comes out of that. It brings the biggest smile to my face.”
"My very first day [on The L Word] I met Kate [Katherine Moennig] for the first time, and it was like, "Sarah, meet Kate. Kate, Sarah. Kate, you're going to be going down on Sarah. Sarah, you are going to have an orgasm. Welcome to The L Word."
"When Damian and I were in scenes together, I’d have to stand on an apple crate. Then they built me something they call ‘the Shahi ramp." [on being 5'4 next to 6'1 co-star]
"Nobody ever thought I could do this kind of role [Dani, Life]. I was stuck in the position of either ‘she’s too pretty’ or ‘she’s too ethnic’ or ‘not ethnic enough.’ There was always a reason I couldn’t play an everyday, blue-collar character."
"Altman asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I wanted to be an actress but I have no idea how to do it. He told me, 'I think if you went out there, I think you could make it.' I looked it up on the Internet. I told my mom, 'The guy who directed "Popeye" said I could do it.'"
"I'm going to be the female Elvis," she was quoted as saying in a 1999 People magazine piece.
"It's always hard to answer a question like that and not sound cheesy. I put a lot of importance in being a good person. It's such a cliched thing to say. I have tons of aspirations and acting goals, but I want to be well-rounded -- I want to be a fantastic mother and a great homemaker, and I want to find a great charity I love."
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