Naya Rivera's Quotes

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.

Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.

I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.

I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.

It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.

From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.

I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

I love hot yoga. I go to a sculpt class with weights. That's really good for the core and it's obviously super hot. I love cardio bar. I'm not a big gym fan, so I like to go to classes.

I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

I used to be a workout fiend and I was so unhappy because I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. So now if I know I have to be in a bikini, I'll obviously watch what I eat for a week.

I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.

I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.

I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.

My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything.

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.