Quotes from Erika Christensen

I told my parents I wanted an agent, and they decided to let me have a go at it. Then I started working right away. I was 12.

Love scenes feel very mechanical. But our whole job is to make it look real.

Those auditions - you sit down, and literally the whole time you're there, they scrutinize you, and you know that. But you can't take it personally.

If being a skateboarder were a personality type and not actually an athletic activity, then I'd say I'm a skateboarder. But I don't ride one. I'm a bicycle person.

Sometimes, I get so annoyed when other people brag. And sometimes, I know that I'm better than that or I've got something better in the works; I don't say anything. I just say, 'Really? That's great.'

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

As a little girl, I really hated pink, for instance, and I didn't like wearing dresses. I didn't want to be a girly girl then, but now I love being a girly girl!

I can change my mind and can learn other things. And anything I don't know, I'm capable of learning if I so desire or if it's necessary.

My home life is very much about getting up in the morning and getting to the gym or getting on my bicycle and making sure that I get to cook dinner for my boyfriend.

There's no one who has more authority over my life than me. And I can learn things myself and how to communicate to other people and how to apply with the rules of life.

Scientology helps me in acting to focus on communication.

'Confirmation' is the movie I'm super proud to be a part of.

For the first six years of my career, I was relegated to those girl-next-door, sweet, cheerleader kind of roles, and it was really frustrating for me because you don't have to do much acting.

I look like a sweet, corn-fed kid. My roles are my rebellion.

I have so many pairs of riding pants that are from the store at the stables in Burbank where you can go ride your horse at. I don't ride a horse, but I do wear the pants! I love them!

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

My buddy lost about 100 pounds cycling. He took me on a 31-mile loop. I was hooked.

I think part of the beauty of our relationship with jewelry is that it can change and evolve as we do ourselves.

I've found that a lot of my male friends have great style and great appreciation for designers.

There's a lot in Scientology that develops confidence because there is peace, I think, that I've gotten just to know that what I do know, I do know.

It's funny to say its fun to explore someone's really rough time, but it is. It's exciting.

I had fallen in love with doing television.

FaceTime is a life saver for relationships and for family.