I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

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.

Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!

Big dreamers achieve more than big doubters.

Want more energy? Drink water. Sleep deep. Love passionately. Eat clean. Forgive completely. Create something new.

Yes live like there is no tomorrow but not because you don't want a tomorrow.

Whether good or bad, it was I that did the damage, and the wisest rule in life, note the aftermath and how to manage.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.

There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me

There’s no basis or anything. I just have this conviction that appeared inside of me which I have to follow.

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

The power of an intention multiplies, depending upon how many people are thinking the same thought at the same time.