Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

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.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

Photography has saved my life, over and over again.

Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.