I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I'm doing a film or a job. For me, it's always about the script and whether I'm doing something that I've never done before.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

A Bombshell commands attention for her business with a strong culture, consistent branding, and simple, no-to-low cost marketing.

We are besieged by simple problems.... Checklists can provide protection

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good.

my lungs sucked at being lungs.

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and be very comfortable with.