Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood I don't think I'm pretty enough.

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.

Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.

The second gift is Beauty. May your deeds reflect its depth.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.

Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector.

It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.

The death of contentment is comparison.