I heard I'm going to have scenes with Lady Gaga so I'm hoping it's true. I know of one scene I have.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Whoever wishes to learn, must begin with the knowledge of the Holy Bible.

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.