I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

Family is becoming more and more important to me.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don’t know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It’s such a hard job to have. I don’t have any regrets about it.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98)

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

The poorest people are not people without money, but people without memories of happier times when they're down

Bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them and however life looks, you'll be happy.

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.