I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

As a woman, we all want to feel attractive. We all want to feel that we're making the very best of ourselves so we can accept ourselves.

Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.

Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.

I'm just not wearing any makeup. People thinking I'm wearing prosthetics of all sorts, I just don't have any makeup on.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.

To forgive does not mean to forget.

Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy.