Mandy Moore

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.

I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.