I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There`s an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

If Carson was an actor, he`d understand why I have to be away on sets and that if I have to kiss another guy in a movie, I do it. He`d read the tabloids that I was with Ashton Kutcher, but that was a bunch of bull. Then, I started reading he was with a stripper, and that wasn`t true. You start tripping on each other for no reason. It makes you crazy. - about part of why she and ex-fiancéé MTV VJ Carson Daly split up.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

I`m not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can`t go out and get messed up, he can`t smoke in front of kids - he`s the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

I`m more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.

I just couldn`t live without dogs.

I can make a scene that`s not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It`s a power you`re born with. It`s not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It`s all in the eyes.

At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: `Tara, those were $700 shoes.` What are they going to do, search my house?

I like a guy who uses his hips when he`s dancing. You know you`re in for good sex if a guy uses those on the dance floor.

I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time.

I wish all the mean people, if you want to be mean to each other, just buy a country together and blow each other up. Then we`d have no terrorists left. Like, don`t kill innocent people for no reason. It`s not fair. We love everybody. We`d even like them if they said they`re sorry. It`s not fair that innocent people are getting hurt. It makes me sad."

I think the reason I never ended up in as much trouble as Paris or Lindsay seem to is that I`m not stupid, so I`d never do a lot of the things those girls do, and I`ve always had good friends around me. They need to straighten up a little bit and make better investments. And they should surround themselves with better people who don`t let them get themselves in trouble. You`ll never read a story about me going out and partying when I`m supposed to be working. Nor would I show up on a set drunk or miss a day`s work - never.

People think I am America`s party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.

Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I`m not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, `Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.` I keep trying to get closer to that. I also think when that happens, people will finally leave me alone.

Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you`re still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy **it, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.

"If Carson was an actor, he`d understand why I have to be away on sets and that if I have to kiss another guy in a movie, I do it. He`d read the tabloids that I was with Ashton Kutcher, but that was a bunch of bull. Then, I started reading he was with a stripper, and that wasn`t true. You start tripping on each other for no reason. It makes you crazy." - about part of why she and ex-fiancéé MTV VJ Carson Daly split up.