Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.

Smile… Even when your life is at its worst, you never know when you’ll meet the one who takes your breath away!

I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

There is so much pressure to look a certain way in this town. But it's nice to have a little meat on you, and I hope I inspire women to appreciate their muscular calves.

I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.

I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me.

Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles*

I would never do anything outside of the rules of play.