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.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.