Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

The really great people are the ones who know how to make the little people feel great.

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

I try to be me to the utmost.

The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

I have never done a stroke of work in my life.