I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

Everyone has a story inside them. Some are bedtimes stories, some thrill and others scare and horrify their readers. Find out what your story is and share it with the world.

Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.

You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.

The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.