Quotes from Lela Loren

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

There is a deep camaraderie of insecurity between us actors. You rehash choices you've made among those who are close to you and inevitably bang your head against the wall when you finally figure out the scene... a day after you shot it!

My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character's mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well - the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it's hard to tell who came up with the line.

I'm learning how to have a healthy form of love, how to make it lasting rather than just have it be a flash in the pan.

There's a bizarre comfort and safety in doing your last and most intimate scenes with the actor you've worked most closely.

It's a terrifying feeling when you have to do multiple takes of a tricky scene because the focus puller cant keep a sharp image.

I love to ask people questions. I want to know everything about them, even things that may be seemingly socially inappropriate.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

To get on a show where you're acting day in and day out for many, many hours - 15-16 hours sometimes - it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don't have time to fret about your choices afterward.

Enrique Muricano isn't afraid to try something new, to take risks, to possibly fail, and in turn, set himself apart.

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

I'm mixed race - my dad's Caucasian, and my mom's Mexican - so I want to play anything and everything, from American to Latino, the whole spectrum; I'm insatiable.

When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week - if I'm lucky!

Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College. This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students. He graduated the spring before I started, so we didn't know each other.

I don't think that the black market's a new thing. It's always been a part of history, and it's been one of the ways that immigrants and disenfranchised people move into the middle class.

I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.

Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.

I don't feel like I've ever subscribed to the stereotypical notion of success. I've always equated success with having integrity, conducting yourself with compassion and honesty, and following your heart despite whether or not you ever make any money at it.

'Power' is Andy Bean's first television job, ever. Talk about sticking the landing at first go!

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

Women could never beat men physically. So we have to be stronger in other ways.

You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.

I live in Venice, where I can roll out of bed in my pajamas, so I tend to fly under the radar - and I hope that continues.