I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a.m. to train before a day of shooting... I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want.

You can't be perfect. No one is. That's why we need God.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.