I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.

The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.

This is the consciousness revolution, You got the right to think, Don't think about it just do it

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.