I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

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.

Learn with great passion.Learn with great enthusiasm.

Everybody Communicate, but few Connect.Why? because finding a common ground to build a connection is a matter of knowledge and perception!

I have learnt that you're out of your mind now!- Consider it as my fault... No! I don't blame you! - So Is it easy for you to forgive me? Try to walk in my shoes someday ...

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Every writer has to write his speech.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.