I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

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!

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.

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.

Forgiveness comes later in life, after you've created enough disasters of your own.

The language of nature is silence.

Friendship needs no words.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

Mario you are a great chef but you look like a homeless James Gandolfini.

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits!

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.