I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

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 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.

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.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

You’ll have me, ” Cam whispered. “You’ll have me, hummingbird. I’m your fate— even if you won’t admit it yet.

what can be the best way to express emotions, if not literature

Entrepreneurship is a responsibility rather than a profession.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

I'm always looking for the comfiest place to lie down, like a cat.