All humans need love, attention, and appreciation, and those can be very female traits. I feel like they should be male and female traits, but I think that they are more easily attributed to women.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

There’s nothing typical about Genuine Love. To be loved authentically is to be blessed beyond measure. Only a fool would take advantage of something that so many people yearn for.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

True greatness demands humility

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.

I ain't looking back only forward.

America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me.... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.